Word: nixonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nevada state legislature last week became the first in the nation to declare traditional Chinese medicine "a learned profession." By nearly unanimous vote, the lawmakers legalized acupuncture, herbal medicine and other Chinese practices. What sold them was neither Nixonian detente nor the thoughts of Mao, but a free Chinese clinic that, by special permission, was opened for three weeks across from the statehouse in Carson City...
THERE are those who say that law and order are just code words for repression and bigotry. That is dangerous nonsense. Law and order are code words for goodness and decency in America." So spoke President Nixon as he explained his new crime initiatives. It was a purely Nixonian sentiment, grounded on his belief that he and the majority of Americans were resonating to the same moral pitch...
...force of Nixonian reform, if it has any, is peculiarly directed against those elements in society which are already threatened. The tenor of the suggested changes in the tax code and of the proposed budget has demonstrated that the end has come to Federal favor for education. The end of tax loopholes and excesses of Federal aid is an end to be questioned rather than welcomed, if it can come only at the price of ending necessary Federal aid and chilling private contributions to notoriously unprofitable institutions like universities...
...from an elegant dinner of pompano at a restaurant in Coral Gables, Fla., paused next to a customer who was deliberating over various expensive meats on the menu, and advised: "It's patriotic to eat fish." A few days later, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns amplified on the Nixonian diet. "I think it would be a good idea," declared Burns, "if we had a meatless day once a week." His suggestion: buy more cheese...
...PLETHORA OF reporting and analysis concerning the Nixon Administration's attack on First Amendment rights seems almost incestuous because of the vested interests of the media. The press should be so diligent on other issues of equal import. Yet, the media's persistence in challenging the Nixonian ill-regard for the First Amendment grows out of an endemic responsibility to safeguard the public. Self-righteous as it sometimes appears, this feeling is deep-seated throughout the print and broadcast industry. Examples have been abundant of late. Half a dozen newsmen have chosen to go to jail rather than violate confidential...