Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion. Inevitably, Washington seers concluded that his resignation, on the heels of Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Ackley's appointment as ambassador to Rome, was intended to appease House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills and thus help to resuscitate the Administration's tax rise...
With an encyclopedic mastery of budget detail, Schultze had the difficult task of analyzing federal spending programs before an economy-minded Congress. Although the sharp rise in war spending dominated his attention, Schultze was still able to undertake a major streamlining of the Budget Bureau and to promote the cost-effectiveness techniques that McNamara introduced at the Pentagon. Though he could have commanded $100,000 a year, Schultze accepted modestly salaried posts as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and part-time professor at the University of Maryland...
...flying, Biddle injected the national conscience into a battle over Hawaii's Diamond Head. Financier Chinn Ho's plan to develop apartments on the extinct volcano's seaward slope sparked an eruption of Hawaiian sentiment against the idea. Said Biddle: "There is a place for high-rise development, but must it be on the slopes of your greatest monument?" Now embattled preservationists have begun to sway the Honolulu city council against the rezoning plan...
...higher Harvard can rise, therefore, the better chance it has of making the semi-finals and finals, which are played on neutral ice in Boston...
...sociological options has brought us here to this church, And surely we are in this church partly to celebrate the occasion of our noncooperation (and many of us will celebrate in a somewhat different way at parties with friends tonight). But let us not be deceived. The sun will rise tomorrow as it does every day, and when we get out of bed the world will be in pretty much the same mess it is in today. American bombers will continue to drop incendiary bombs on the Vietnamese people and American soldiers will continue to "pacify" their villages. The ghettos...