Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus has slimmer prospects of passage. For obvious reasons, it commands considerable support in the House, especially among junior members and those from swing districts, who object that under the present system a member has barely taken his seat before he must begin thinking of reelection. As congressional sessions grow longer, bills more numerous, issues more complex, Representatives argue that they are needlessly distracted from their proper business of lawmaking...
...Philosophy is not, as you suggest, invented. It is always the product of its own history and the men who grow from and then add to that history. Philosophy remakes men, and sometimes those men become philosophers...
...department, has been what Weaver calls an "administrative monstrosity," comprising five major sub-agencies that have not always worked together-or with Weaver. Under the new law, the Housing and Urban Development Secretary gets authority to bring his subordinate offices into line. Weaver's responsibilities will doubtless grow fast. A presidential committee headed by Dr. Robert C. Wood, 42, chairman of M.I.T.'s political-science department, has reported to the President on what additional functions-such as air pollution control-HUD should acquire. Which of the still-secret proposals Johnson will adopt for recommendation to Congress...
...deny that the supplemental are really competitive. "As the service of record, we cover the news fronts from every corner of the world," says A.P. General Manager Wes Gallagher. "The supplemental just hit the high spots." Nevertheless, some papers have dropped U.P.I, after adding the supplemental. "If the supplementals grow as much in the next five years as they have in the past five," says Denver Post Managing Editor William H. Hornby, "metropolitan papers will begin to wonder if they need both of the regular wire services...
...from it female sex hormones that women could swallow. Later it was discovered that the hormones were effective as an oral contraceptive. Syntex then began selling the compound to other drug firms, later introduced its own pill. Both Syntex and Searle now obtain their diosgenin from Mexican yams, which grow wild in the jungles. Rosenkranz, now Syntex's president, has continued the company's research in hormones and nucleic acids, the basic substances of living cells...