Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What Galbraith suggests concretely is much more conservative. He believes that the economy can absorb up to 4,000,000 unemployed, proposes a sliding scale for unemployment compensation. He feels that use of the sales tax should be expanded to provide better communities, and takes to task liberals who resist city and state sales taxes...
...pick his subjects and markets, draws top rates ($15,000 for the desegregation pieces). Meticulous and unhurried, he often writes first drafts 1,000 pages long, delights in the freedom of freelancing that has driven many another writer back to the certainty of the payroll. Says he: "I resist the bigness that's coming to the magazine field. I'm a 19th century man." In 1952 Democrat Martin wrote a campaign biography of Adlai Stevenson; in 1956 he was a Stevenson staff writer...
...refusal to fight; but on the contrary, the most positive approach to world problems. They advocate a constructive program for peace, which would transfer the effort, resources and intelligence now used in preparations for war to a plan for non-violent national defense. Fully aware of the need to resist the growth of communism, they yet look on war as only strengthening totalitarianism everywhere, and deny the assumption that "the massive engine of modern war can be applied rationally, or controlled to achieve democratic ends . . . And we have seen that a constructive program for peace cannot be carried on simultaneously...
...Central But. Government, said Nixon, should help "correct the evils of inflation, profitless prosperity and low productivity." Action already taken includes: 1) more extended unemployment compensation; 2) accelerated Government spending especially in hard-hit areas; 3) more credit. Government should promote a sense-making public-works program but should resist "massive spending-a spending binge now can only lead to a, hangover of debt and inflation later...
...Closeup. As her subjects gathered, tourists, reporters and photographers streamed into the square too. In spite of their loyalty to their queen, the gypsies could not resist doing a little business. To keep the curious even more so, they fanned romantic rumors about the queen's hidden $32,000 treasure. They also made newsmen pay for everything they got. Prices ranged from 5,000 lire ($8) for a photograph of a gypsy weeping to 50,000 lire for a closeup of the queen herself. "For only 5,000 lire more," a gold-toothed, top-hatted elder told an Italian...