Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge, some of Nixon's changes will have clear and quick results. When Volpe replaces Alan S. Boyd at the Department of Transportation, the new Inner Belt will inevitably be built through a section of Cambridge where it is both unwelcome and harmful. It is still hard to say whether the proposed route should be changed, but Boyd was at least willing to listen to local complaints and suggestions. Nothing in Volpe's performance as governor or his what-makes-Sammy-run desire for ac-complishment suggests he will be as accommodating. "In his haste to get the job done...
...whole administration reeks of the Nixon of the fifties. Old, self-made businessmen will run the domestic affairs, old hard-line diplomats will run the foreign policy, and a slicked-up press operation will carry the old Christian Herter ideology of secrecy one step further. Nixon promised in his campaign to remember the forgotten American. Few people suspected then that he meant the forgotten millionaire businessman Americans...
...Because of declining interest in the traditional church, "many of the auxiliary institutions of American Catholicism will suffer. Diocesan papers, publishing houses, book stores, magazines, etc., will be hard hit, and many will disappear from the scene...
...whole economy six to nine months later. Between April 1965 and April 1966, for example, the money supply climbed at the rate of 9½% a year, and the war-swollen economy began to suffer from inflation. When the Reserve Board overreacted, it slammed on the brakes too hard. Until January 1967, money supply was allowed to grow at a yearly rate of only 3.8%. The result, says Friedman, was the first-quarter slowdown that analysts dubbed the mini-recession of 1967. Since January 1967, the money supply has increased at a 9.9% annual rate, and Friedman blames today...
...imminently logical when evaluated in the narrow terms of academic freedom. The arguments of the anti-war, moralist group are even less practical and convincing in terms of the real-life world. Both arguments deal mostly with technicalities from a very narrow point of view rather than with the hard realities of life and the broad spectrum of our national existence...