Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unable to meet burgeoning budgets from a shrinking tax base, East St. Louis has survived for the past 15 years by the euphemistically named ploy of "judgment financing." While borrowing from banks, which invariably have to sue for repayment, the city has remained a step ahead of its creditors by taking advantage of an Illinois law that permits it to float bonds without public consent. This kind of Micawberism has driven the city so deep into the red that debt service accounted for 35% of 1967's property-tax revenues and threatens to devour more than half...
Though they were upset by the U.S. decision to build Safeguard, the Soviets have carefully refrained from any direct criticism of President Nixon. Instead, they still hope that they can prevail upon him to meet within the next few months to discuss some sort of limitation on the ABMs. A much more complicated issue is the question of the Soviet attitude toward West Germany, which is the only West European state that has the economic muscle and geographic location to exert a direct influence on the East Bloc...
...standards of broadcast content." That same week, CBS-TV President Robert Wood wired the brothers: "You are not free to use the show as a device to 'push for new standards.' " The response, CBS claimed, was a refusal to provide tapes of new shows in time to meet contractual deadlines. As a result, CBS announced the termination of the show this month, at the end of its third season. The CBS charges, retorted Tommy, were all "manufactured," and so was the rationale for the cancellation. "They waited until just now so it would be impossible...
Other changes are designed to meet urban problems. Mass may be said any hour, day or night. New church buildings are to be simple in design and modest in appointments. Priests may replace the traditional vestments during services with other dress appropriate "to the worshiping community." It was laid down as a basic principle of church government that "all members of the parish community are to share in decision making," specifically in such areas as liturgy, education and finances...
Roessel says he will start new courses in any subject requested by students. There will be no pressure to meet a rigid two-year junior college timetable. "We will tell them, 'take your time,' " Roessel says. " 'If you need three years, or four, use them.' " After the college moves from its temporary location to its new campus near Tsaile next year, it will expand its enrollment of 357 to accommodate 1,000 students...