Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President endorsed a long-stalled law ordering states to raise their meat hygiene codes in conformity with strict federal inspection standards. The measure, which had lain dormant in congressional committees despite efforts of its Democratic sponsors, was given the impetus of national publicity by Nader. He pointed out in a series of freelance articles that many meat-processing plants throughout the country, which handle a full 15% of the beef, pork, lamb and poultry consumed in the U.S., escape federal inspection because the meat does not cross state lines...
However, even if the planners' arguments and local political pressure created the drive for the review, they might not have overcome the bureaucratic impetus created by the DPW's decision of last May without outside help...
...federal government's current "war economy" drive has added to the impetus to cut down highway spending. Secretary of Transportation Alan S. Boyd recently sent telegrams to the 50 state governors, asking them for their reactions to a possible 50 per cent cutback in highway spending as an anti-inflation measure...
...step in the direction of a one man, one bedroom policy is clearly desirable. Overcrowding provided the impetus for planning a new House; deconversion was--and remains--the one legitimate reason for building...
...course, such an outlook goes back to the New Deal and earlier, but it gained new impetus during and since the Kennedy years. Paradoxically, perhaps, in view of their desire to work with groups, these students share the individualism, not to say anarchism, of the uncommitted law students, and they are sometimes so violently anti-bureaucratic that they cannot endure even the mild constraints and regulation either of the law school or of a government agency; like many talented students today, they suffer from a claustrophobia which resists all constraint, whether of curriculum or language or manners or the compromises...