Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teachers give whatever courses they like, (there are over 200) and enrollment for each course may not exceed 15. The class meets once a week for either an hour or 90 minutes. In addition, each student has a bi-weekly half hour "conference" with the course instructor, during which they discuss some topic suggested by the course, and about which the student will write a comprehensive course paper...
...Geneva pact last year that guaranteed the "neutrality" of Savang's lethargic little kingdom. The first stop had been Moscow, and the Russians showered gifts, including slick Chaika (Seagull) limousines, on the King and his bland, bowing Laotian entourage. President Kennedy did not exert himself to exceed the Russians: he gave the King a desk set and an autographed photo of himself...
...increased as much as 450%. Import duties on most raw materials, machinery and manufactured goods will be boosted from 15% to 55%. All of India's taxpayers will have to deposit up to 3% of their after-tax incomes in government savings accounts; businesses whose after-tax incomes exceed 6% of their capital value must pay a 50% tax on all subsequent profits. All basic household goods, cloth, food and cooking fuels will be hit with new taxes. Only exceptions: sugar, shoes, rice and matches...
...Joint Economic Committee statements attacking the Administration proposals. In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee last week, one witness after another blasted one or another aspect of the tax package. Most shot-at target: the proposal to allow itemized deductions only to the extent that they exceed 5% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. An official of the National Association of Real Estate Boards testified that this revision would damage the homebuilding industry. Businessmen defended the present arrangements on stock options as a valuable incentive for executives. Spokesmen for pensioners argued against Kennedy's proposal...
...Atlantic Model General Assembly at Howard University, Gardner said, "The price of participating in any political institution is that you cannot get your way all the time. We cannot expect to get your way all the time in the U.N. The central question is whether the credits exceed the debits--whether in looking at the balance sheet as a whole, the institution is making a net contribution to our national interest...