Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy called his farm goals "as common-sense as A B C D"-for abundance, balance, conservation and development-but the program is sure to raise a huge controversy. Said Charles B. Shuman, president of the 1,600,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation: "Naked coercion . . . fantastically expensive." To lessen such opposition before Congress acts on the plan, Kennedy dispatched Agriculture Secretary Freeman to explain his program to farmers. The Detroit Free Press reported that his speech to farmers in East Lansing, Mich., got a reception "as frosty as the snow flurries outside." With such feeling, there is almost...
Haberler and Friedrich both said that the present high level of unemployment and the balance of payments deficit would lessen the chances of Kennedy getting the requested legislation at the present time...
...student administration of band seems pleased with the ensemble as it is now planned, because they feel it will lessen Walker's demands on the concert band, and give them a freer hand in running the organization. The big question mark is whether the ensemble will draw too many top players away from the concert group, leaving it musically feeble. This year no one will be allowed the concert group to join the ensemble, but next year no restrictions will restrain them...
...African nations will have the opportunity to associate themselves with the new European complex, links to the older nations of the Commonwealth may have to be worn away. The nations most hostile to Europe will be bitter about the economic break, and they show no signs of wanting to lessen their bitterness by forming so much as a joint customs union among themselves...
What was land? An agreement that would lessen tension over Berlin? A treaty defining the future of Germany? A "general European settlement"? Last week, with a hiatus in East-West talks, it was becoming clear to some diplomats and journalists that the real question is not Berlin but Germany, the heart of Europe, and they stepped back to take a cold, hard look at suggested settlements-and their possible consequences...