Word: nils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...practical effect of the speech was nil: Kennedy had withdrawn his name from nomination the night before, after losing a rules fight that ended his last chance of prying loose a sufficient number of the 1,982 delegates Carter had won in primaries and caucuses. But the fervor of Kennedy's supporters demonstrated a severe problem, not only for Carter but for all Democrats. The party is searching for, and has not found a new role and a new voice. While its primary votes went to Carter, whose conservative economic policies caused Kennedy to jeer at him as "a clone...
...Indonesia are not in a position to speak for the desires of their people. Even if they were, the decision to support the majoritarian choice would be no less political. It is not much of a consolation to think that HIID's practical effects may be close to nil; it still stands its local ideological allies in good stead...
...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...