Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unclear how soon this definition might be confirmed. The Mayor's victory on Tuesday may only prove that he has won the battle to save himself, but is continuing to lose the war to save New York City. Many would say, as John Kenneth Galbraith suggests, that it is a war of fiscal survival. This is oversimplifying the situation to some degree, but perhaps not very much...
...Budget Director of New York City might well respond to this question, depending on how frank he was willing to be, that a crisis atmosphere around budget time is good politics-it tends to get more money out of a recalcitrant state legislature...
RAISING tax rates is not the only means of increasing locally raised revenue. One could also increase the tax base, holding rates constant (or even lowering them). The most important local tax is that on property, and the Mayor might also increase the property tax base for more revenue...
...sympathies from the outset-not only by default, but because they really are swell people. They want to be able to smoke pot without coughing; they want to believe in Esalen; they want to dig wife-swapping. If they rather than Bob and Carol, had gone to Esalen, they might even have been saved...
...Harvard procedure says nothing about identification of students. Wilson said that while identification by a dean is not "proof beyond a shadow of a doubt" of a student's guilt, such a produre might conceivably be used at Harvard because the resulting suspension is only temporary and because, "University discipline uses the standards not of criminal but of civil procedure, where all you have to show is 'a preponderance of evidence...