Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assumption behind his bill. When they are freely available, he believes, "pornographic books and pictures very quickly become boring and distasteful to adults with a normal sexual life." He is backed up by a four-member professional commission that spent two years studying the subject. The public's interest in pornography, he maintains, is mostly "the result of curiosity about what is forbidden...
...overall goal should be the evolution of an Asian balance of power, a mosaic of self-interest that induces Asians, including the Chinese, to trade rather than quarrel with their neighbors. To that end, distant as it now seems, Washington might well take several small to middling unilateral steps demonstrating that the U.S. poses no threat to China and its regime, and that it desires conciliation whenever Peking is ready for it. Says Harvard Sinologist James C. Thomson Jr., a former State Department and National Security Council official: "Why wait for the other man to blink? Why not try winking...
Instead of seizing deans or buildings, a growing number of students are showing their dissatisfaction with U.S. higher education by participating in a gentler rebellion. Out of idealism (and self-indulgence), they are busily starting "free universities"-academic Utopias where students and teachers can pursue what ever subjects interest them without formal examinations, grades or degrees...
...provided: "No one shall be arrested or imprisoned on the appeal of a woman for the death of any person except her husband." Another proclaimed: "If anyone who has borrowed a sum of money from Jews dies before the debt has been repaid, his heir shall pay no interest on the debt for so long as he remains under age." The legislation introduced in Parliament will repeal ten other clauses that have either gone unenforced in recent years or have been superseded by new laws. Among them is one that ordered the removal of all weirs (dams) from the Thames...
...still vividly recall the episode in the late summer of 1966 that came to be known as "the credit crunch." Restricting the nation's money supply in order to slow a rapid price rise, the Federal Reserve Board acted so decisively that the financial markets reacted with hysteria. Interest rates rose rapidly, the Dow Jones average sank 25%, and many lenders were so short of funds that it became extraordinarily tough for corporations to borrow...