Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state sets maximum limits on wages and prices-through "guideposts" in the U.S., the "freeze" in Britain-in order to protect the corporate-planned economy from inflation. Galbraith found it amusing that such control, though a reality, is nonetheless still approached "with great caution and circumspection, somewhat in the manner of a Victorian spinster viewing an erotic statue...
Drafts & Decisions. The result was, so far as the nation knew, that all manner of problems and questions remained in a state of unsettled limbo. The first galleys of the President's budget message for fiscal 1968 began arriving last week in Budget Director Charles Schultze's office, but, said a White House aide, "every fourth word is a blank." The budget is expected to be roughly $130 billion, with $70 billion to $75 billion of that for defense. Just where the money will go depends on such pending decisions as whether a Nike-X anti-missile missile...
...admitted his affair with Mrs. Farber, but insisted that he was a conscientious physician to Farber on the day he died-giving him proper treatment for a sudden heart ailment, pleading in vain that he go to a hospital. Neatly dressed in a dark suit, as professional in his manner as a medical-school lecturer, Coppolino even turned to the jury to give an onomatopoetic description of how irregular William Farber's heart had sounded...
...exclusive recipient of their recollections. The family, particularly Mrs. Kennedy, has also taken pains to forestall the attempt of other authors to investigate the days surrounding November 22, 1963. The logical, and unfortunate implication of their action is that they are trying to "manage history," much in the same manner Presidents manage news. And the consequences of such behavior can be only more rumor, and dead silence from the only credible sources of information...
...much the same manner, the cautious Harvard undergraduate never meets the Administrative Board...