Word: pamphleteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buchanan readily termed the Watergate wiretapping "wrong" and "a crime." He found the distribution of a pamphlet during the Florida primary, charging Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson with sexual misconduct, to be an act that "crosses the line" into impropriety; he viewed electronic surveillance in politics as wrong (it is also a crime); and he considered the diversion of campaign contributions given for one candidate to the campaign of another to be illegal...
...committee failed dismally in trying to pin down this elastic concept of political ethics. Buchanan admitted editing a pamphlet that he agreed had grossly misrepresented Muskie's position on why it would be impractical to run a black as Vice President in 1972. His glib explanation: "This is exaggerated, hyperbolic, political rhetoric...
Shortly after President Nixon entered the White House in 1969, he asked John Ehrlichman, then White House counsel, to issue an 87-page pamphlet titled A Reference Booklet on Conflict of Interest. The pamphlet advised all Cabinet members to liquidate their investments and put the proceeds into blind trusts or diversified mutual funds. "We don't want any whiff of questions," said Ehrlichman. "No member of the Cabinet is going to know what he owns...
While the Society's claims may suggest a "Dare To Be Great course for hippies"--a description made by one visitor at an introductory lecture last year--independent scientific literature supports the contentions of the pamphlet. Articles in Scientific American, Science, The American Journal of Physiology, and The Journal of the American Medical Association have documented changes in mental and physical states during meditation. The light sweat normally present in skin diminishes abruptly, signalling greater ease. Alpha waves in the brain, another indicator of relaxation, grow stronger. The heart beat and blood pressure drop...
...number of cases which can be tried by Federal courts of administrative tribunals is small compared to the pervasive nature of employment discrimination," says a government pamphlet explaining the importance of the affirmative action program...