Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only the day before, President John son had publicly expressed his "regret" over the board's 4-to-3 decision to raise the discount rate in order to counter in flationary trends (TIME, Dec. 10). As sembling his quadriad of top economic advisers - Treasury Secretary Fowler, Council of Economic Advisers Chair man Gardner Ackley, Budget Director Charles Schultze, and Martin himself-in Texas, Johnson discussed the state of the economy with them for two hours...
...Million Cost' was printed 'U.S. to Pay $6 Million Loot'; and on the same page in the item on Billy Graham, 'Asks Audience to Give L.B.J. Standing Ovation' was printed 'Asks Audience to Give L.B.J. Standing Nation.' We sincerely regret these misspellings and ask our readers to accept our sincere apologies...
...Long Regret. Johnson got what he wanted-but he paid a price. Though the clash did not wipe out the good will that Johnson has accumulated among businessmen-partly because the President carefully stayed behind the scenes-that old feeling will never be quite the same again. Even before the aluminum industry backed down, Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller warned: "We are in danger of backing inadvertently into a managed economy; this is not the high road to the good life." After the backdown, many businessmen expressed disappointment and chagrin. Even on Johnson's own staff, there were...
...Catholic teaching, suicide is a mortal sin; according to canon law, a Requiem Mass may not be said for someone who takes his own life. Presumably because LaPorte lived long enough to regret his action, the church allowed a memorial Mass, which took place in his home town of Tupper Lake, N.Y. His remains were buried in consecrated ground...
...revolution in health, education, welfare and self-sufficiency for the Vietnamese that the Communists can hardly be expected to understand. The Communists themselves chose South Viet Nam as their test case and springboard to the conquest of all Southeast Asia. There are signs that they are already beginning to regret it. The U.S. has picked up the gauntlet, and it is not only Vietnamese nationhood but all of free Asia that stands to be ultimately strengthened by the extraordinary-and still burgeoning-commitment of the lives and talent and treasure of America in Viet...