Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word from the White House to Capitol Hill was perfectly plain: Don't mess around with the Administration's new voting-rights bill, just pass it fast. Sentiment in Congress was for doing just that. But there were some doubters -and they had some points...
...members' one big, unifying issue is opposition to colonialism, and since that issue is fast liquidating itself, it has become necessary to invent "neocolonialism" to keep it going. At the same time they plainly feel, as became clear at last year's meeting of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), that the "neocolonial" powers owe them a living through aid and better trade terms...
...anyone's existing privileges; rather, it presupposes there is enough meat, and gravy too, for everyone at the tables." Johnson's small-scale proposals on health, education and poverty are tied to a "neverending economic expansion," writes Shannon. If the economy falters or fails to expand very fast, those programs may not pay off and people will be soured on their President. "If he sells every legislative proposal hard and oversells many of them, he may fairly soon provoke public disillusionment and disbelief." Shannon, who-in the company of other liberal commentators-used to fault John Kennedy...
...commission's discussions, said one member, have moved well beyond the legality of the pill to consider the larger issue "of whether or not the church should alter its stand on the whole question." He reported, that both camps were standing fast, and have summoned all kinds of experts to back up their views...
Also the Seven Dwarfs. All this has meant fast growth for the large U.S. industry that makes computers. In the U.S. 21 companies now turn out the machines, and their production and sales ($5 billion last year) provide jobs for 650,000 people. This year they will put at least 8,000 more computers into operation. The industry offers 250 commercial models of machines, ranging in price from the $8,800 Data Systems DSI-1000 to the $4,300,000 Control Data 6600, and in size from the 59-lb. IBM computer aboard Gemini to machines as heavy...