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...this straight: since SDS took a strong leadership role in the Harvard Student Strike in 1969, and since that strike resulted in the transfer of decision-making power to the Faculty, how is it then that--according to Mr. Wilson--"the radical legacy was almost nil...
...benefits for the elderly. Certainly, if the government taxed the consumer 50 cents for every gallon and then gave the same consumber back 50 cents for every gallon he purchased, and if the consumer then used the 50 cents to pay for the tax, the net effect would be nil--not only on inflation, but on conservation. As Anderson explains, "The whole object of the exercise would be to make people drive less and use their money for other things." In other words, more money would chase these "other things," amounting to still another inflationary impulse. This new problem would...
...Giaimo, chairman of the House Committee on the Budget: "It's an election year and we all hear the national cry out there to keep spending down. I think Congress is even less in the mood for new spending than it was last year, when support was almost nil...
...made on other, noneconomic grounds." It is notable that those years when the Pentagon budget was largest in real dollars, and took its greatest share of the G.N.P. and federal budget, were also the years when the nation enjoyed some of its lowest inflation rates. In 1955 inflation was nil, and in 1965 it was around 2%. Increases of more than 2,000% in Government spending on health and housing in the past decade, declares Nunn, show that the pattern of inflation fits "the real increase in nondefense spending." Observes Oregon Senator Bob Packwood: "Let's lay to rest...
...tormented land last week. U.S. officials reported that Big Daddy was in Libya seeking arms from his fellow Muslims in Tripoli for a possible counterattack against the new Ugandan government and its Tanzanian allies. Though Amin's chances of succeeding in such an effort were practically nil, at least some members of his shattered army professed to be eagerly awaiting his return. Claimed a soldier from the elite Simba Battalion, once the bulwark of Amin's forces, speaking to a Western newsman near the Kenya border: "His Excellency is on the radio every morning telling us what...