Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although antiwar forces lost their fight to fix a withdrawal date, Mansfield will almost certainly tack such an amendment, with a May 1972 deadline, onto the $21 billion military-procurement bill. It will thus become a fresh vehicle for the antiwar forces...
...motor pool every day and tell me to paint that truck," complains a G.I. in Kaiserslautern. "The next day they tell me to chip the paint off, and then I paint it again." Insists an armored division lieutenant: "There's just so much you can do to fix a tank." Scorning the Army as "the Green Machine," the Seventh's soldiers adopted a "mox nix" attitude, from the Yankee pronunciation of the German macht nichts (it doesn't matter...
...American Psychological Association, has proposed a startling cure for international aggression. The world's leaders, he told the A.P.A. meeting in Washington, should be required to take "psychotechnological medication"-pills or other treatments to curb their aggressive behavior and induce them to govern more humanely. Such a pharmacological fix, Clark argued, "would provide the masses with the security that their leaders would not or could not sacrifice them on the altars of the leaders' personal ego pathos...
...temper. He lost his temper." The Republican National Committee, as part of its research on Muskie, has an affidavit from a Maine telephone operator swearing that during a Muskie vacation a few years ago, a telephone repairman had to go up to the Senator's cottage three times to fix a phone that had been ripped off the wall...
...effect? Nathaniel Samuels, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, is rumored to be suggesting that the surtax might not be removed until after the 1972 election. In that case, the job of monetary reform might be a long one. Few nations would be willing to fix their currencies permanently at high rates relative to the dollar while the tax remained in effect, because once it was taken off, the structure of exchange rates would be upset again...