Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy, but its effect is merely to replace the inapplicable principles of chemistry with equally inapplicable genetics. Reunion of families is an extremely desirable goal for immigration policy, but it cannot constitute the entire basis of an alien-admission system. The assumption that relatives of citizens and resident aliens make more desirable immigrants is as ridiculous as McCarran-Walter's national origins hypothesis...
...college on the make, the royal road to reputation is the research production line. If a university can beg, borrow, or steal a dozen scholars who then illuminate the academic horizon, it may rise from anonymity in a single decade. In part this is due to the comparative ease of evaluating scholarship as opposed to evaluating graduates, and in part it is due to the fact that academic reputations are national, whereas personal reputations of graduates are usually local...
...once-buried Brannan plan, devised in 1949 by Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan (now general counsel of the left-wing Farmers Union). Under that scheme, the farmer would sell his crops on the free market, and the Federal Government would send him periodic checks to make up the difference between market prices and support prices. Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge is sponsoring a Brannan-type measure to cover the six "basics" (wheat, corn, cotton, rice, peanuts, tobacco), and Minnesota's Humphrey is working on a broader farm bill that will include some Brannan direct payment...
...another careful choice of terms last week, Vice President Nixon called for conservatism without "stand-pattism." Said Nixon to a Los Angeles Republican luncheon: "I don't think we could make a greater mistake than to say that because some people don't like being called conservative the Republican Party should stop being conservative. We should be proud of what we believe...
...label records for 65? apiece, Lormar offered a cut rate of 55?. Eventually buyers discovered that the records had been pirated from genuine big-name platters and counterfeited in Cincinnati down to the color and code numbers of the label. Top hit on the counterfeit parade: You Can Make It If You Try, with 86,000 bogus copies in circulation...