Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is confusion over whether these expectations will be fulfilled quickly. Although Richard Nixon has been silent lately on this issue, the two Cabinet officers who share jurisdiction over school integration-Attorney General John Mitchell and Secretary Robert Finch of Health, Education and Welfare -have made some alarming and ambiguous moves. Their effect is to raise the question: Is the Administration pulling back from the scheduled pace of desegregation? The rhetoric, to be sure, remains pro-civil rights, and in some respects the Administration has been both progressive and innovative. Finch, earlier thought of as the Cabinet liberal...
After pointedly taking issue with the threat of violence posed in the manifesto, the United Presbyterian Church nonetheless invited Forman to speak be fore its General Assembly last May. And in the most generous response yet to Forman's complaint, the Presbyterians authorized a drive to obtain $50 million for general works against poverty...
Last week a group of top corporate officials resolved to confess, repent and reform. They formed the Construction Users' Anti-Inflation Roundtable -quickly nicknamed "Roger's Roundtable" because it is headed by Roger M. Blough, retired chairman of U.S. Steel. It includes executives of General Motors, Standard Oil (N.J.), General Electric, Union Carbide...
Hurting Consumers. Construction costs are also coming under attack from other directions. The Associated General Contractors of America, whose members build most of the nation's roads, dams, factories and skyscrapers, has devised a strike insurance plan that may go into effect next year. "It would help stiffen the resistance of a little guy who might otherwise cave in," says William E. Dunn, executive director of the A.G.C. Labor Secretary George Shultz has been meeting since May with Harvard Economist John Dunlop and other experts to explore ways to contain construction costs. Shultz hopes to induce contractors and construction...
...zeal to point out liberal shortcomings, Lowi may blame liberalism for failures due to the largeness of the state and its duties, human folly in general, human greed in particular. But his book is a useful and often fascinating corrective to much current theorizing about liberalism, government and decentralization. There is considerable evidence, moreover, that many Americans, growing as generally outraged about the state of the nation as Ralph Nader specifically was about the quality of U.S. automobiles, are willing to take stern measures to be sure that the machinery of government is well made and well...