Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some members of Congress object to the presentation of the program as a single bill. They would prefer to discuss and vote on each proposal separately and fear that the whole program may be defeated if it is kept in its present consolidated form...
...historic area" in which building would be strictly controlled. There seemed doubt that the proposed tower would win official approval. The council has not yet taken action, but Kaelber said that the Ed School would hold consultations with neighbors of the unorthodox structure and others who might object...
...sorts of wondrous things with a basketball. He steals it, he dribbles it, he posses it, he grabs it away from fellows several inches taller than his 6 ft. 1 in. stature, and he throws it through the hoop, which after all is the object of the whole affair. For the first few games he was a hit hesitant about his shooting, but in the Crimson's four Ivy games Scully has been the first or second leading scorer in all of them...
Before he came to the U.S. in 1950, Okada derived his forms from landscapes and figures: "I worked with the object." But for a man who ultimately decided that he wanted to paint the interior of his own mind, the object merely inhibited the necessary flight of fancy. And so Okada turned to abstraction, which he calls "the Western way" but his Western way still keeps the flavor of Japan...
...rdoba was symptomatic of what makes U.S. investors nervous about Latin America. Country after country is troubled by rampant inflation and other economic ills. But in dustry cannot pare its production or its heavily-featherbedded payrolls because left-leaning unions forbid it, and floundering local governments do not dare object because they need union support to stay in office. The result has been a radical cutback of investment in Latin America at a time when the Kennedy Administration urges an Alliance for Progress in the two continents. Where their net investment averaged $300 million a year during the 1950s...