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Word: receivee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senators never felt grander. The Congress decided what industries to protect with tariffs, what railroads to build, what public works to undertake. They chose, or thought they chose, Presidents. And they were hawks: the Senate had more than its share in pushing the U.S. into the Spanish-American War. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE CREATIVE TENSION BETWEEN PRESIDENT & SENATE | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

The second factor common to both countries is the shift from dependence on the family as a source of support in old age to a reliance on support from the government. It used to be that the more children parents had, the more assistance they would receive when they could...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Improving Quality of Life, By Limiting Its Quantity, Is Population Center Goal | 3/17/1966 | See Source »

Both advocates and opponents of the new system agree that the old method of assigning freshmen hurt certain Houses severely. Freshmen indicated their first, second, and third choices on their House applications, and each Master chose a percentage of those who had ranked his House first. But freshmen regarded a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Selection Plan | 3/12/1966 | See Source »

Some freshmen (and there is no way of knowing how many) develop a preference for one of the houses. In the past, they were required to state their first, second, and third preferences, on their applications, and this led to choices that were sometimes based on little more than the...

Author: By Bruce Chalmers, | Title: Master's View: By October's End You'll Swear Your House Is Best | 3/12/1966 | See Source »

More money for education is certainly desirable. And the $1 billion in tax revenue lost to the government through this amendment would have gone into paying for tuition, textbooks and supplies. But too much of the money would have been wasted on families in middle income groups who do not...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Ribicoff's Tax Credit | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

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