Word: hasten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trying to hasten action by the Senate Finance Committee on tax-cut legislation, Johnson summoned Republican Floor Leader Everett Dirksen, a key member of the committee, to the White House for a poached egg breakfast. "Why don't you go on back up there and get that Finance Committee moving?" demanded the President. "Let's get a ten-minute limit on speeches and debate put on that committee." Replied Dirksen to the man who first achieved national fame as a skilled Senate lead er: "Lyndon, you know that place well enough to know...
...better work out that way -for, as the Kennedy Administration knows so well, failure of the U.S.-encouraged generals' junta to hasten the pace of the Vietnamese war might have explosive domestic political implications in 1964. Certain to be heard from for quite a while is Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu-who looks as though she might stay on in the U.S. for as long as possible...
...Rudolph A. Peterson, 58, elected this week to the presidency of the Bank of America, believes that "in another ten years money will be more or less obsolete." As the new head of the world's largest bank, Swedish-born, California-raised Rudy Peterson hopes to hasten that day by moving the Bank of America further toward an automated time when it will handle everything from company payrolls to customers' milk bills. A credit expert and onetime prodigy of Founder A. P. Giannini, he feels that this trend makes it all the more important to keep up human...
When competing against China, neither country can afford to follow Gandi's philosophy of hastening slowly, he said. They must "hasten with haste." This cannot be done while the largest item in the budget is for defense...
...addition to providing public assistance for the displaced, government economists and policy-makers must strive to hasten the Automation Revolution to the point where industrial expansion gives rise to new jobs...