Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reform Measures. To cover the revenue loss, the committee approved extension of the surtax at a reduced 5% rate through June 1970, a measure expected to produce $3 billion. It also endorsed, though in a more relaxed form than the House, provisions eliminating some of the more glaring tax inequities...
...until last week, after more than nine months of reassessment, did Nixon give his answer. "We do care," he told Latin America. "I care." The President could hardly have said less. But how much did he care? And in what ways? Nixon expressed his concern rather quietly, in the form of a sedate and pragmatic U.S. approach to relations with its neighbors. Businesslike and low-keyed, his proposals were a far cry-and, some felt, a refreshingly realistic departure-from the soaring vision of John Kennedy's Alliance or the "Decade of Urgency" that Lyndon Johnson proclaimed...
Emotional Facet. The President approached no issue more gingerly than that of U.S. private investment, one of the most emotional facets of U.S.-Latin American relations. Many countries view U.S. investment as a form of economic colonialism that extracts more than it puts in. "We will not encourage U.S. private investment where it is not wanted or where local political conditions face it with unwarranted risks," Nixon said. "But my own strong belief is that properly motivated private enterprise has a vital role to play." Nixon plainly had in mind Bolivia's recent nationalization of the U.S.-owned Bolivian...
...other observations of children in New York City form equally interesting pictures. Boys in black suits stand in the smooth white ground of a handball court-some playing, some waiting their turn. The court is silent though you can feel the slap of the ball against the hand, dangling outstretched, ready to play. The picture of boys in the city speaks in its starkness...
Sources at Harvard said that both the Harvard chapter and the statewide organization of YAF would probably decide to form a peaceful barricade against the NAC on Tuesday...