Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject here. Because of the very questionable nature of the war, criticism is often exclusively directed against immediate events without any consideration of long-range effects. Allowing the opinion to prevail that our Vietnam policy is not in itself a tragic mistake in foreign policy, it is nevertheless clear that the war is causing a frightening series of mistakes. By its power to "channel" young men into the "essential" industries, the SSS is forcing this college generation to continue its lopsided manpower emphasis on technological science at the expense of social science, and on the industrial-military complex as opposed...
...elections that followed, while less publicized, involved, nevertheless, charges of slander and ballot stuffing by both the Machine and its opponents. In withdrawing from the election of 1959, one candidate said. "I find it impossible to continue in a race which annually results in personal slander and character assassination...
Brooks Brothers, the New York clothiers, makes a nifty set of threads, but $50,000 does seem a bit stiff. Nevertheless, a North Carolina woman named Marion J. Smith is asking that much for an 1865 Brooks Brothers frock coat and suit-namely the one worn by Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated. The coat came to Mrs. Smith via her grandfather, a White House doorkeeper who was given the clothes by Mary Todd Lincoln. Though the bidding is open to everyone, the National Park Service lusts for the frock coat for its Lincoln Museum in Washington's restored...
...Nevertheless, say the programmers, the selective viewer should be encouraged by the unprecedented number of specials offered this season. After all, they explain, the audience cannot be selective unless it has something better or at least different to select from. On three successive nights recently, each network pre-empted all regularly scheduled series for specials...
Attacking the Symptoms. Nevertheless, the dollar's increasing exposure as the bastion of international monetary arrangements gave the President little choice but drastic action. Again and again since 1961, the Administration has promised that the dollar-weakening payments gap would be closed or greatly narrowed. Tinkering and tightening toward that end, the Government put a 15% tax on purchases of foreign securities by its own citizens, cut duty-free allowances on tourist purchases abroad, and finally imposed the "voluntary" curbs on bank loans and corporate investing. Balance, however, remained elusive and the cumulative deficit, after losses...