Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...govern Broadway. Rising costs increased the risk of producing a Broadway show and decreased the number of successful (profitable) ventures. Shows in the fifties had to be bigger money-makers than before to cover their expenses, and to insure large audiences producers would seek out more popular stars (regardless of whether or not they could act). Despite this subservience to popular taste, profits declined as costs rose still more, tickets became more expensive, and New York theatre attendance dropped...
...broadening of Kerr-Mills to grant federal-state medical help not only to indigent people 65 or older, as at present, but also to certain other needy people regardless of age-those blind and disabled, members of indigent families, and homeless children. They would receive a full range of doctor and hospital services, with other benefits left to the states. The minimum federal share of the program would be raised from...
Kerner was not the only beneficiary of such feelings. Throughout the country, voters preferred the incumbent Governor or Senator, regardless of party. Incumbent Republican Governors and Senators ran an average of 17% ahead of Goldwater. At the same time, non-incumbent Republicans running against incumbent Democratic Governors and Senators ran only 1 1/2% ahead of their Presidential candidate, 1964 was not the Year of the Split Ticket; it was the Year of the Incumbent...
Underlying Von Stade's call for change is his assumption that choosing a House is a relatively unimportant decision. "The Houses just aren't that different... You can't really tell what Harvard College is going to be like as a high school senior." And regardless of what House a freshman is placed in, "nobody's unhappy by the middle of his sophomore year," he says...
Power also differs with any suggestion that the U.S. must not be the first to use nuclear weapons in any future war. Throughout history, he argues, "regardless of any prevailing moral concepts, new weapons never remained 'unconventional' for long because, in the eternal struggle for power and survival, nation after nation had to acquire and use these weapons until they became quite conventional-and moral." He foresees that the U.S. might use "nuclear munitions" in local wars where American soldiers are "vastly outnumbered by the Communists." Further, it is "conceivable" that the U.S. may some day have...