Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Illinois general assembly has voted on the amendment every year since 1972, but so far it has failed to win the required three-fifths approval in both houses. During the 1976 session, it was defeated in the senate by a mere seven votes. President Carter took up the cause before the legislature, saying, "What you do here in this chamber over the next few weeks might very well determine whether women have equal rights under the U.S. Constitution...
Like most bureaucracies, HEW had a modest beginning. It was created in 1953 from existing agencies by a cautious Republican President, Dwight Eisenhower. In its first year of operation, HEW's budget was a mere $5.4 billion, of which $3.4 billion went for Social Security. Immediately the department became a political issue, as congressional Democrats pressured Ike to increase funding. He held off until the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957. Then the first significant breach was made in hold-the-line spending. Fearful that the Russians might surpass the U.S. in science and technology, the President backed the National Defense...
...most workable solution. Only such a plan could overcome the widespread feeling among voters that much aid to LDCs is wasted because it consists of piecemeal efforts by the givers to finance uncoordinated projects. It is often forgotten that the Marshall Plan involved far more than the mere ladling out of money: it committed the U.S. to aid countries that drew up detailed and effective plans to use the cash and goods for rebuilding. This coordinated planning is vital-especially since the task of promoting growth in the poor countries will be much harder than the reconstruction of Europe...
Eighty per cent of women undergraduates made the dean's list, compared to a mere 77 per cent...
...sociobiology question is not central to the book, and dwelling on such a fault of overeagerness would do injustice to what is otherwise a valuable work. The mere existence of techniques for psychosurgery should place the public on guard, and a professed willingness by some physicians to seek to apply those techniques on a large scale to American sub-populations should set red lights flashing. Even assuming that psychosurgery can be effective in modifying behavior through the physical manipulation of brain cells, physicians have little more right to decide correct behavior than gun-owners have right to decide what...