Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the era is welcomed by every level, it is just beginning; there is still plenty for the Government to do before it becomes a really flexible partner. Many federal programs, framed by bureaucrats who often scorn as incompetent their brethren at the lower levels, still come with more strings than a troupe of marionettes, leaving no room for needed diversity and thereby threatening both the initiative and independence of the states. "The Federal Government earmarks grants for specific purposes," says James Q. Wilson, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies. "In many cases, those purposes...
Because creative federalism involves relationships among all three levels of government, the states could certainly get help with some of their problems by tapping the abundant resources of the lower-level governments within their borders. The nation's 3,049 counties, for example, could play an important role in coordinating the overlapping needs of city and suburb in such areas as sanitation and law enforcement, but most of them are restricted to routine housekeeping chores by jealous state legislatures. Local governments should be feeding ideas to their state capitals on urban-renewal and welfare programs, but city halls have...
...Pierre's clothes are perfect for women of any age," clued in the fashion ambassadress, herself wearing a loose-fitting Cardin suit that reached mid-knee. "I just lower the hemline. When you are older you have to work harder to find what's right for your age. Some women do not want to make that effort. Isn't that right, Pierre...
...This World. Long regarded as a pioneer in modern dance, Nikolais has had to blaze his trails in the relative wilderness of Manhattan's Lower East Side, where even the off-off-Broadwayites rarely penetrate. Vaudeville was staged last week in the troupe's permanent home, a small (348 seats) theater nestled between a drugstore and a Jewish bakery and operated by the Henry Street Settlement, an institution primarily devoted to neighborhood social work. Despite this isolation, Nikolais has built a big following that now affords him the luxury of a 21-week season and an increasing number...
...damaged the cultural prequisites of obvious less-privileged groups. Moreover, would you not reintroduce many of the invidious distinctions you in fact condemn by yur proposal that the Peace Corps are related projects be considered as an exact equivalent to the draft? After all, these options have a far lower risk to life and limb than the armed services, and the armed forces require a much more unattractive (sometimes mindless) discipline--and this is not even considering the question of the present...