Word: safely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOYNIHAN does not quite say that the community action programs should never have been implemented. It seems safe to infer that this is his belief, since he tells his readers that he argued against community action at the outset, and goes on to credit the programs with helping to create the atmosphere for riots on one side and the rise of George Wallace on the other. But he emphasizes throughout the book that what he is primarily concerned with is the broader problem of the application of social science to public policy. What disturbs Moynihan about the Community Action Program...
General Raval dismissed the ambushes as Huk attempts to "salvage what is left of their prestige." But a junior officer was less optimistic. "Nobody in uniform is safe in Central Luzon until the Huks get their pound of flesh," he said. "And they'll get it, sooner or later." They probably will-considering that the government has promised much and done little. Huk strength is still estimated at around 300 armed men, which does not sound impressive-but they are supported by thousands of sympathetic or frightened peasants...
...Justice Department is studying whether to recommend broader antitrust legislation to cope with conglomerates. Paradoxically, the trend has been fostered by Government antitrust barriers against mergers within the same field. More and more firms with little in common are getting together because it is the only legally safe way to merge...
...Although the chief of the Nigerian government personally guaranteed our plane safe conduct into Biafra, our mission was bombed every day of our visit," Mayer said. "Naturally this lack of trust-worthiness makes any kind of negotiations very difficult," he added...
...Esalen, the sudden and over-whelming knowledge had come to the boy, when he was climbing up the mountain, that he had his breathing. "I am safe in my breathing." And he laughed and laughed because it was that easy. Until the very moment of death, he would always be safe in his breathing, always secure. He could always take a deep breath and say, "I am safe there, that is my breathing, that is my life, that is me." His breathing was his anchor, it was his starting point. And he thought that it was not by coincidence that...