Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conferences, man-to-man chats and scratchings on the backs of envelopes last week, three facts about federal spending came clear. They were: 1) the Administration no longer intends to hold defense spending below a $38 billion ceiling; 2) the U.S. will be hard put to hold overall spending this year below the budgeted $72 billion; 3) the burgeoning budget for fiscal 1959, due for presentation to Congress next January, will exceed the Administration's earlier $70 billion forecast. The compelling reasons: Sputnik I and Sputnik...
...current research and development budget by Charlie Wilson; he also authorized the Air Force to lift its emergency ceilings on monthly payments to aircraft companies (see BUSINESS). In view of the higher defense spending, said the President, it would require "serious retardations elsewhere" in the budget to hold the overall $70 billion line...
...Hatred and scorn for those of another race, or for those who hold a position different from our own, can never be justified...
...major question confronting philosophy is: "How can we keep the treasure of subjective depth, and at the same time retain hold on universal validity in our experience?" Man cannot simply abandon modernity-it represents too valuable an advance; he must somehow find a way to pass beyond...
...effort to remain apart from his classmates comes, then, from his precarious hold on superiority. The Exonian's intellectual feelings are not unlike those of the nouveau riche. Both are seeking to prove that they have already got what only passing years can bring, while constantly afraid that their inferiors will refute the claim to superior status...