Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...District Judge Morris Lasker has just denied a preliminary injunction. As he saw it, the poster makers had violated no law; moreover, banning the posters might infringe on their right of satirical expression. With a gallant touch, Lasker also reassured the Girl Scouts that their sturdy reputation for virtue would easily survive this "wry assault." Said Lasker: "Those who may be amused at the poster presumably never viewed the reputation of the plaintiff as being inviolable. Those who are indignant obviously continue to respect...
...Five years later, he abandoned his Ph.D. thesis to spearhead the Met's contemporary arts activities. His criterion for a work of art: "Memorability and a visceral physical reaction. For some people it's in the heart, for others in the throat. Sometimes you might even throw...
Many human beings convert only 1% of their cyclamate intake to CHA, and so minute a quantity might well be harmless. But for unknown reasons other, equally "normal" people convert as much as 40% to CHA; if they are heavy users of cyclamates, the resulting high dose of CHA might cause cancer or other diseases. Like countless other chemicals, cyclamates also cause breaks in the chromosomes of both man and animals, but the genetic significance of these breaks is not yet known...
...warned that Nixon might veto bills -possibly even the tax-reform bill-that involved excessive spending or loss of revenue. Almost his last words before his appointment to the Federal Reserve were: "We will not budge...
Surviving a Slowdown. Burns has suggested that a recession might not be so bad. He has often said that the U.S. can survive a business slowdown, or even downturn, without necessarily incurring a sharp increase in unemployment. He reasons that the economy has become service-oriented, and that service workers are less likely to be laid off than those in manufacturing. Even in manufacturing, he thinks, shortages of skilled labor have been so severe that companies will continue to hoard workers rather than fire them as sales and profits decline...