Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress and the President are not yet as badly stalemated as they were during John F. Kennedy's last days, but they are rapidly approaching that point. The Great Society is sputtering along in low gear because, as one Administration official put it, "the governmental structure has outrun the funds." Rumors of wholesale resignations are making the rounds in Washington in the wake of Robert Mc-Namara's decision to quit the Defense Department. United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg is expected to depart within a few months; Labor Secretary Willard...
...rank and file-the average $4.81 an hour in wages and benefits Ford workers now get will rise by about $1 during the next three years, starting off with an immediate -age jump of 20? an hour. At around 7% overall, the new package seemed sure to outrun the 5% increase-6.6% including subsequent cost-of-living adjustments-that the U.A.W...
...year, however. Musick has put together a much quicker defensive line. He switched his 250-pound defensive end Tom Diehl to tackle and put a halfback at the defensive end spot. As a result of such maneuverings. Musick has put together a mobile team--not so quick as to outrun the Harvard offensive line, but certainly effective enough to stifle Princeton and Tiger tailback Bob Weber (10 tries, 23 yards...
...economic reforms to which the Johnson Administration has committed itself in the past three years. The 89th Congress put no fewer than 136 major domestic bills on the books, and nearly everybody from federal administrators to municipal bookkeepers has been overwhelmed as a result. "Our aspirations," says Gardner, "have outrun our organizational abilities...
...zippy little vehicles provide all sorts of extra benefits. The putt-putting noise daunts would-be lawbreakers; the potential speed (60 m.p.h.) and mobility enable wheezy cops to outrun juvenile delinquents, mount sidewalks or even bounce up shallow steps to bypass traffic. For surprise, two-scooter teams patrol their beats in ever-changing patterns; for instant contact, each man carries a portable two-way radio. Not long ago, a scooter cop and a prowl-car team simultaneously got word of a burglary; riding on sidewalks, the scooter man beat the car by seven minutes and nabbed the burglar...