Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peaks, the Administration estimated Federal income for fiscal 1959 (beginning next July) at $74.4 billion, with tax rates remaining unchanged. That would top 1958 income by $2 billion, and, as Ike promised beforehand, leave a budget surplus. But the black-ink estimate amounts to only $500 million, a mere razor's edge as sums in the federal budget go. And just to give the Administration some room to maneuver, the President asked Congress to lift the $275 billion statutory debt limit "temporarily" through fiscal...
...items, unchanged from 1958 levels, can be chalked up to past national defense: $5 billion for veterans and $7.9 billion for interest on the national debt. The total bill for past and present national security adds up to about $60.2 billion, or 81% of the entire budget, leaving a mere $13.7 billion for everything else...
...President is too big for any one man; the country should be run by a Supreme Court. Too long the fate of the nation has been in the hands of mere politicians, among whom there is not a statesman in a thousand carloads...
Pool and ping-pong tables, bicycle racks, uniforms, pianos, and many other things which keep a House from being a mere dormitory and dining room are maintained and often provided by its House Committee. Most members take this equipment for granted, as they have been led to do by the general promise of the House system. Yet only part of its cost is absorbed in House budgets. House Committees must seek the rest in voluntary contributions...
...departure was an escape which she fears wasn't complete. Although there are occasional very convincing statements of her loneliness and fear, there is never an adequate explanation of it. Instead of being seductive, the South seems dull. What sinister undercurrent there may be is over-whelmed by the mere verboseness of the conversation and thought. Too much time is spent on the essentially dull characters and too little on their potentially interesting environment...