Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he was "flabbergasted" when he saw what had been done with his product. "Everything I saw there was something I had seen, made or handled myself. It never crossed my mind that they could become art objects." He foresees no run on old hat blocks, however. Empire, in fact, has just burned a couple of thousand for lack of space...
...fourth time this year. Two weeks ago, members of the Organization for Black Unity partially occupied the administration building to dramatize their demand that 20% of the construction workers on future Harvard buildings be drawn from black and other "third world" groups. Last week Harvard officials cited the fact that the nonwhite population of Cambridge is less than 10%, and called the 20% proposal "gross and seemingly illegal discrimination." Next day black students responded by preventing workers from entering a Harvard construction site, taking over the faculty club and seizing University Hall as well. Once more, they left the administration...
...state reimburses a sectarian school for any part of the curricular costs of a teaching program, it directly finances and supports a religious enterprise. Constitutionally, such subsidizing of a religious enterprise is not essentially different from a payment of public funds into the treasury of a church." The fact that such aid incidentally relieves the state of the burden of educating more children at full cost, said Hastie, does not make it any less unconstitutional...
Nixon's difficulties are complicated by the fact that the Republican Administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress have hit an impasse on fiscal policy. The President has trimmed $7.5 billion from the federal budget that he inherited from Lyndon Johnson and ordered reductions in Government construction. Congress has consistently voted this fall to raise federal spending above the levels that the White House wants. Last week Nixon announced that he would impound appropriated funds, if necessary, to keep the Government from running an inflationary deficit in fiscal...
Friedman's fact-laden criticisms of the Federal Reserve have considerably undermined its once sacrosanct standing as the arbiter of U.S. monetary affairs. Mindful of his formulations, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee has been pressuring the board to expand money supply at a rate of between 2% and 6% a year. The board has refused to go that far. but it has begun providing the committee with quarterly reports explaining its money-supply maneuvers...