Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steady Hand. Actually, the President had gone to great lengths to get a careful consensus from leading economic experts on whether he should raise taxes: he insisted on signed memos of opinion from every person he consulted, both inside and outside the Administration. All agreed that a tax boost was in order. Some non-Administration economists argued that the crimp on income could brake the business slowdown to the danger point. But Johnson also asked for an average 20% rise in Social Security benefits. It was an unexpectedly large increase that will pump some $4.1 billion into the economy...
There are those, inevitably, who think that he is also eminently suited for Lyndon Johnson's job. But Gardner, who describes himself as "a remarkably non-political kind of person," dismisses such a notion as unrealistic...
...local board, on evaluation of a claimant's answers to Form 150, decides he does not deserve CO status, the claimant may opt for a hearing with the board to present his case in person. At the hearing, the board subjects claimants to a cross-examination which is often hostile. If the local board still refuses to classify him I-O, the claimant may take his case to the state appeal board. This entails an FBI investigation of his background and a hearing with a Department of Justice Hearing Officer. On the basis of the hearing the Department of Justice...
This comic picaresque stuff is so easy to read that the reader might fail to notice Céline's didactic intentions. Courtial is Yongkind, grown up and equipped with a degree from the polytechnic, but the same optimistic cretin. In the person of Courtial, Celine pours all the vitriol of his prose on an age that believed science and progress would confer inestimable benefits upon mankind. Courtial's windy rhetoric on the subject of these benefits is mocked by the hiss of hot gases from his chronically punctured blimp. By the time the first great technological...
What about abortions? Why is it not "organized?" The answer is not easy, and there may be too many special characteristics of this market to permit a selection of the critical one. The consumer and the product have unusual characteristics Nobody is a "regular" consumer the way a person may regularly gamble, drink, or take dope. (A woman may repeatedly need the services of an abortionist, but each occasion is once-for-all.) The consumers are more secret about dealing with this black market, secret among intimate friends and relations, than are the consumers of most banned commodities...