Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what seems to be a combination of prudence and progressive spirit." Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona points out that "after 1964, a lot of people complained that they had elected Johnson and gotten Goldwater's foreign policy. Now we've elected Nixon and, to a large extent, we're getting Johnson's domestic policies...
SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. Although Richard Nixon proposed in the 1968 campaign that benefits should automatically increase with rises in the cost of living, Mills is skeptical: "We no sooner passed the Social Security Act of 1967, increasing benefits, than inflation is allowed to get to such an extent as to practically wipe out the increases. There are those who have said that the social security benefits should be related to and geared to cost of living increases. I have never favored that...
...trouble with all the early coverage, by both "the Blues" and the commercials, was that it was not health insurance, although it was widely misrepresented as such. It was, and to a great extent remains, sickness insurance. Far from putting a premium on preventive medicine and the maintenance of good health, it puts a premium on sickness. Until recently, most Blue Cross plans covered no care outside a hospital, and specifically excluded diagnostic procedures. The result has been connivance to defraud the insurers. Often if a woman needs a diagnostic pelvic examination that might better?but need not necessarily?...
...success of Harvard's hockey team in upcoming games with Yale and Cornell will depend to a great extent upon teamwork, and teamwork is the trademark of three sophomores who constitute the team's explosive line...
...that some issues are inappropriate for student consideration--either because they are specifically Faculty issues, or because they are too sensitive. It is not at all clear, however, that students have no contribution to make in discussions of departmental structure or procedures for deciding on tenure. To a large extent, these are matters of value judgment and common sense. And presumably, students would be bound by the same codes of propriety as Faculty in handling whatever information the committee considered...