Word: renewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faster buildup that Westmoreland wanted was unpalatable to the President for domestic reasons, but he was also unpersuaded that it was essential to our effort in Viet Nam. It would have required mobilization of some reserves, and that would have been extremely expensive. Momentarily, the President is expected to renew his January request for a 6% surtax on personal and corporate income taxes, in hopes of whittling down the big budgetary deficit anticipated for the current fiscal year. Calling up the Reserves could have forced him to peg the surtax closer...
Since the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, in A.D. 70, Conservative and Orthodox Jews have beseeched God four times a week to "renew our days as they once were" - a plea for the restoration of the Temple. Although Zionism was largely a secular movement, one of its sources was the prayers of Jews for a return to Palestine so that they could build a new Temple...
...Washington's reluctance to lower tariffs on imported chemicals and European resistance to lowering duties on American farm products. Humphrey warned that if agreement was not reached by the deadline at month's end, the U.S. Congress-now in an increasingly protectionist mood-was not likely to renew the 1962 Trade Act that authorized the five-year tariff negotiations. Warned Humphrey: "It's now or never...
...touchy questions of undergraduate deferment and whether to replace or reorganize the system of local draft boards. Nor does he intend to rush out executive orders-as he has the power to do-to implement the lottery scheme and some other proposals. Congress has until June 30 to renew and amend the draft law, and in so doing it may apply legislative controls to some areas in which the President now has sole jurisdiction. But Johnson's go-slow approach gives Congress time to make its views felt-and an opportunity to share any political consequences of major changes...
...members of religious communities are the only ones who can change them. To stay within the community and help renew it according to today's insights is, I think, very worthwhile. A seminarian friend of mine put it in a nutshell: "We are not in the real 'light of Vatican II' as yet; we are only at the dawn of a stormy day. But we have the opportunity to determine the weather. We can't go south for the winter; we have to stay and bring about the spring...