Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holding the Line. Frequent warnings that tax cuts should not be accompanied by new federal deficits were heard at a national conference of the Tax Foundation in Manhattan. Said New York Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston: "If spending reductions cannot be made concurrent with tax-fate reductions, then it would certainly appear wise to at least hold expenditures at the 1963 budgetary level, so that as the economy grows, both federal spending and taxes would begin to absorb a progressively smaller share of national income...
...pumped an elephant full of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a psychotomimetic drug. According to the latest issue of Science, they chose the subject for the experiment "because of his remarkable intelligence, his extended life span, his capacity for highly organized group relationships, and his extraordinary psychobiology in general. His fate was horrible and brief...
...fate has odd ways. And so, in Windsor Locks, Conn., Pilot Clifford...
What anguishes middle-class Britain is the fate of eleven-plus "failures"-the 75% of eleven-year-olds who are sent to "secondary modern" schools set up by the 1944 act. Stripped of grammar-level minds, such schools are often semi-vocational institutions that cannot offer training for even the ordinary GCE. Parents and children loudly call them "dumping grounds for duds." Class-conscious Britons feel that "dud" schools spell failure, not to mention the danger of a lower-class accent for their children. To avoid eleven-plus disaster, parents lavish prizes of cash, bicycles and transistor radios...
Such a proposal may not seem too absurd if one recalls the experience of the analogous Gill plan to open tutorial to non-Honors concentrators. If the Faculty had passed a Gill plan that required departments to tutor absolutely all non-Honors students, it would undoubtedly have met the fate the Tuesday legislation is likely to meet. It passed because it allowed department discretition in determining who might be excluded from tutorial through failure to satisfy rock-bottom criteria. The method of liberalizing the cum loud degree suggested here would permit like discretion--although in this case the Faculty should...