Word: relinquishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sent to Congress a request for $853 million in federal pay raises-a 3% hike for civilian workers and a 4.8% raise for military men with more than two years' service. Included was a controversial request that Congress relinquish its traditional control over Government salary increases and turn it over to the executive branch. Under Johnson's plan, a ten-man commission would review top executive salaries (such as the Cabinet's) every four years and lower-echelon salaries every year. The commission would propose pay changes that would automatically go into effect unless Congress acted...
Case replied to the editor's ultimatum yesterday by revealing that he intends to relinquish his position as publisher in favor of a board of publishers composed of students, faculty, administrators, and alumni, to achieve a publication reflecting the views of "Boston University as a whole...
...conditions of a planned economy, profit can and must express actual efficiency of methods of production. Many Soviet economists think that profit can be used as an index for assessing and encouraging the work of our enterprises. However, this does not mean that the Soviet state intends to relinquish its centralized planning management, which will suffer no harm from the improvement of assessment and encouragement, but on the contrary will grow stronger. Your article ignores the role of centralized planning in the Soviet economy and emphasizes profit...
...Devoir and La Presse, two Montreal dailies, were full of stories that Dupuis had taken a $10,000 payoff to help some Quebec race-track promoters get a franchise in his home district. All Pearson will say publicly is that he asked Dupuis, who loudly proclaims his innocence, "to relinquish his position." Pearson is unwilling to say anything more, despite opposition demands for a full and immediate explanation. The two splinter parties that have voted with Pearson up to now are even threatening to withdraw their support...
Because of Fear. Bliss vowed simply: "I am no miracle man-but I will work hard and do my best for you." In deciding to relinquish committee control, said Richard Nixon, Goldwater and Burch had "averted the greatest danger of a third-party movement this party has faced since 1912." Now, he added, "what we need is a second party...