Word: result
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, the President would like to see a provision tacked onto his bill calling for registration and licensing of guns. But he fears it would result in time-killing hearings or a lengthy debate in Congress. Without question, he considers the gun-control provision in the omnibus crime bill to be hopelessly weak. He is not at all happy about the rest of the bill, either, though he reluctantly signed it into law last week. Johnson had considered vetoing the bill, but was assured by eleven governmental departments whose advice he had requested that most sections would hold up under...
Putting on the Brakes. Though many economists and businessmen considered the drastic measure necessary to check the speed of economic expansion, it has several negative aspects-apart from the extra tax wallop. At a time when job opportunities for the poor must be broadened, unemployment may increase as a result of belt tightening by both Government and private enterprise. With contracts in the steel, shipping and aerospace industries due to expire in the next few months, a wave of serious strikes could brake the economy further. Nor is the rate of consumer-price increases likely to decline for several months...
Nonetheless, the potential long-term benefits are obvious. The federal deficit for the next fiscal year is now estimated at about $7.5 billion, as much as $22.5 billion less than it might have been without the tax bill. As a result, Washington will not have to borrow as much money -good news for those seeking home mortgages or other forms of credit. The entire economy could ease into a more stable growth pattern than has prevailed for the past two years. There may be some disconcerting bumps as things decelerate, but they are likely to be gentle compared...
...tropic Puerto Rico, only the weather generates as much heat as the island's politics. This year temperatures - and tempers - are soaring unusually high as the result of a rash of fires that began to flare last October, just as candidates were warming up for what promises to be a sulfurous 1968 campaign. All the fires have been traced to the same origin: fire bombs aimed at driving U.S. -owned business out of the Commonwealth. In the past year, arsonists have set 20 fires costing $15.6 million, with department stores and supermarkets the principal targets...
...emphasize that he saw nothing approaching a Berlin crisis, evidently convinced Brandt that the Soviets did not have another East-West confrontation in mind. He downgraded the East German travel restrictions as formalities that were fully within East Germany's rights, but denied that they were the result of Soviet-East German consultations. If Bonn did not like the new measures, Abrasimov archly suggested, the simplest way to resolve the situation was for it to recognize the East German government as an independent sovereign state and to establish normal diplomatic relations. In fact, Abrasimov stressed that Moscow regards West...