Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Majority Rule. How would the committee decide whether to squeeze the nuclear trigger-the key question of all? Said Norstad: "In the interest of prompt decision, the committee, and through it the alliance, should be ruled by the decision of the majority. The majority decision would not bind, at least initially, a nation positively dissenting...
Hubert quoted an old-and since modified-Goldwater statement calling for "prompt and final termination of the farm-subsidy programs." This, he told the farmers in his best approximation of cathedral tones, "is the death sentence for agriculture. It would impoverish farm people, wipe out billions in rural land values, ruin business on rural America's main streets, and solve absolutely nothing." And how would Hubert solve things? "You had better make sure that Lyndon Johnson remains as President...
...Prompt Payment. Capitalists have no quarrel with the way Russians pay their bills: on time and in hard currency. The reason, of course, is that the Russians want to encourage even more capital ists to do business with them. Last week a Soviet trade delegation arrived in Stockholm to see if anyone wanted to build another pulp mill. And Soviet officials stirred new interest among British businessmen by announcing that they had the go-ahead to negotiate for eleven more chemical and fertilizer plants worth about $280 million...
...faithful execution of the 1964 Civil Rights Law. For myself, I reject any suggestion that I would do otherwise based on my individual vote as a Senator when the 1964 act was approved by the Senate. Further, I will use the great moral influence of the presidency to promote prompt and peaceful observance of civil rights laws...
...lost it until she becomes pregnant. It is to guard against unsuspected loss of the devices that many of them carry a plastic tail. A woman can then easily examine herself to make sure that the device is in place. Only a few women have intermittent bleeding difficulties that prompt their doctors to remove the devices...