Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nonetheless, pilots and psychiatrists concur in an important conclusion: if Castro were to return a single skyjacker to face U.S. justice, the airborne stampede to Havana would soon stop. He is not likely to do that, for the skyjacking epidemic has become an increasingly perplexing embarrassment to the U.S. Cuba has already earned about $100,000 in landing fees and other charges imposed on the hapless U.S. airlines. Ironically, 2,500 Americans have visited Cuba unintentionally since the end of 1967-nearly four times the number officially permitted to go there since Castro overthrew Batista in 1959. Knut Hammarskjold, director...
...Nonetheless, the advocates of reform still must overcome Capitol Hill's longstanding reluctance to change the electoral process. A total of 153 congressional resolutions (including the Mansfield-Aiken proposal) to amend the Constitution to allow 18-year-olds to vote has been introduced in Congress since 1943. All have failed. Today, moreover, many middle-class voters are disillusioned with the militant youths who fought the police in Chicago during the Democratic Convention and have turned college campuses into battlegrounds. LUV Leader Warren is not concerned, however. He is confident that LUV will conquer...
Unaccustomed Discounts. American steelmakers, benefiting from the strength of the economy in general and of auto sales in particular, will show total profits for 1968 of about $900 million, up from $843 million the year before. Nonetheless, profits as a percentage of sales dropped off. Imports squeezed profits by putting downward pressure on steel prices. To hold on to its markets, for example, even U.S. Steel Corp. resorted to some unaccustomed price discounting. If, as appears likely, the Japanese and European cutbacks produce firmer prices, domestic steelmakers will have to admit that the voluntary agreements were better than nothing-although...
...Nonetheless, he said, "The Faculty is clear that any threat to the conduct of free and orderly discussion in the University is inimical to the work of this community...
THERE WILL be those who will object that even though no will of the majority had been expressed for the demonstrators to violate, that, nonetheless, we intended to violate it. So it turns out that, at least according to men like Gill, we deserved to be punished for violating the spirit of the University, as much as for our violation of a regulation...