Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House aides believe that there are other ways to inject new interest into the old Great Society pitch. Instead of merely claiming credit for previous accomplishments and promising more of the same, Johnson, they believe, should point up his campaign with the "incremental approach." This prescribes the setting of firm goals, timetables and priorities-for instance, the fractional reduction of pollutants in the air by a certain date or the creation of x number of jobs for the chronically unemployed...
...Thomas Beecham. He has a relatively wide repertory, ranging from Mozart through Berlioz to Stravinsky, and an uncanny talent for instilling the faded and familiar with fresh life. His straightforward technique combines grace with precision and gravity with rhythmic bite, and his touch in the opera pit is firm and stylish...
...Hallmark. IHI is about to be come the world's No. 1 shipbuilder, a title that eluded it last year when another Japanese firm, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, topped IHI's 1,600,000-gross-ton production by almost 100,000 tons. By absorbing Kure, a smaller shipbuilder near Hiroshima, next April, IHI will boost launchings to over 1,800,000 tons. Total sales for the fiscal year 1967 are estimated at $530 million, up from $484 million in fiscal 1966. Only about half is brought in by the ships; the rest comes from a wide range of heavy...
...Negroes; after a long illness; in Manhattan. Judge Waring's courageous decision to force the enrollment of Negroes in South Carolina's primaries so inflamed local whites that they stoned his house in Charleston, burned crosses on his lawn, and ostracized him from society. The judge stood firm and went on to argue in a 1951 opinion that school segregation per se is inequality -an idea later upheld in the 1954 Supreme Court ruling...
...General Westmoreland's phrase, there was "light at the end of the tunnel" a few weeks ago, recent events have made the path to peace as tortuous as ever. The State Department's leading exponent of a "hard line" in Asia. Assistant Secretary William P. Bundy, said Hanoi's firm offer was little more than a dangerous propaganda device full of bad intentions. Bundy seemed to feel that Trinh's statement was like an LSD sugar cube--if we grabbed at it, we might blow our cool for good. Bundy's less outspoken boss, Dean Rusk, was not as upset...