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...ultimate hero is the democratic process itself, which is bigger than any individual. This may cut down heroes. But it can also inspire an increment of effort that can make a hero out of many a man who was born in obscurity and never suspected his own strength...
...indulgence granted for some special act of piety enabled him to cut back on the sentence. Later on, indulgences came to be conceived as release from some or all of the ac cumulated punishment time in Purgatory; the church could draw on its "treasury of merit," an increment gathered from Christ and the saints. The plenary indulgence, canceling all temporal punishment in or out of Purgatory due for a forgiven sin, was deemed by St. Thomas Aquinas to be sufficient to enable a soul to soar straight to heaven...
When the 88th Congress adjourned without acting on the Administration's Medicare proposal, it also neglected to act on the projected increase in monthly benefits to the twenty million who now receive Social Security. The modest increment in benefit checks had been approved by both Houses, but it was pulled down with Medicare when Sens. Russell Long (D-La.), George Smathers (D-Fla.), and Albert Gore (D-Tenn.)--presumably under orders from the White House--refused to agree in conference committee to any bill without Medicare attached...
...attention to detail, has seen passed into law several major Kennedy bills, including civil rights, a federal pay raise and the tax cut. He has signed his own anti-poverty bill. His record of domestic performance is immensely impressive. His nation is prosperous; indeed, Lyndon's main increment to Democratic voting blocs comes from the business community...
...concludes HOUSE & HOME, cities and towns must act fast. Most experts agree that "the first point of attack should be to ease the too-heavy tax burden on houses and other improvements, multiply the too-easy tax load on unimproved land, and make the unearned increment in land prices provide much more of the taxes needed to provide the streets, water, sewers and schools without which unimproved land would be neither livable nor salable...