Word: fight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon Administration, which seems determined to prove itself tougher on antitrust policy than the Democrats were, has lost an important round in its fight against corporate bigness. Last week a federal court refused to stop International Telephone & Telegraph, the largest conglomerate, from going ahead with one of the biggest mergers in U.S. history-the acquisition of Hartford Fire Insurance Co. The combination would raise ITT's assets by 50%, to more than $6 billion...
Shortages and soaring prices are the outcome of many forces, but the problem right now is that, as Secretary Romney notes, "housing is the first casualty of the anti-inflationary fight." By making credit scarce and costly, the Government has choked off many of the sources of mortgage funds. More than any other U.S. industry, housing depends on private long-term credit. When interest rates rise rapidly, as they have this year, the financial institutions that normally provide most of the credit run short of money. Savings and loan associations and mutual savings banks have been hard hit by withdrawals...
...Local authorities should accept some new forms of government, or at least governmental cooperation, in order to put an end to the zoning and planning warfare by which suburbs fight to remain enclaves for the well-to-do. As Alcoa Chairman Fritz Close said last week in San Francisco: "Enabling the poor to find housing in the suburbs, where the jobs are, is probably the biggest single step this country could take toward solving its social problems...
...This is part of a growing attempt to use the courts against students who are trying to ally with working people and fight imperialism," an SDS leaflet distributed yesterday reads. "This is an attempt to harass and intimidate students who want to fight the ways Harvard oppresses people...
...will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land...