Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...activity and criticism of the Senate Democrats can be useful nevertheless if it provides a spur and goad to the executive branch. Their interest in foreign policy may provide the basis for a collaboration similar to the powerful combination of executive and legislature which developed American policy towards Europe under the previous administration. If the young Democrats can pressure the administration into a new, dynamic outlook, the benefits will be vast...
...Nevertheless, she became restless and bored. Though her formal education had stopped after a year of high school, Gertrude Stein decided she was going to Harvard. Latin was required for entry, and Gertrude knew only German and French. The stories of how this titanic young woman came to be admitted do not agree. In any case, Radcliffe accepted her and she went to live in a Cambridge boarding house, which she described as "interesting and knowing a lot who I had never seen before...
...Nevertheless, she delighted her professors. William James taught her philosophy and psychology. He was then, as Elisabeth Sprigge writes in her book, Gertrude Stein, Life and Work, "a bright-bearded exuberant man in his early fifties with neither the appearance nor the manner of a University professor.... James liked unusual people and appreciated this rollicking girl, this clever unusual pupil...
...increasing difficulty of raising money to finance the deficit is one of the reasons Anderson and President Eisenhower are battling so hard to balance the budget. A still larger question revolves around the growth of the U.S. economy (see U.S. Expansion). Nevertheless, if interest rates keep edging up, Anderson's problem will only get worse. The Treasury is approaching the maximum interest rate of 4¼% set by Congress back in 1918. Before Secretary Anderson can pay more, he will have to ask Congress to raise the rate. Then the choice will be up to Congress either to raise...
...Nevertheless, almost every economist from New Dealing Leon Keyserling to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund experts and Harvard's Sumner Slichter would like to see the U.S. grow faster. They agree that the old 3% target is outdated, and that the goal should be 5% a year from...