Word: saving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unless they shape up-and soon-warned John Gardner, they will turn into "mere branch offices of one all-dominating national government." Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, who, as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, has probed deeply into the problem, agrees. "We want to save local autonomy from what could be its own destruction," he told Indiana's legislature last week. "If state and local governments do not take effective steps to meet the urban crisis, for example, someone will have to do the job. And that someone is likely to be the Federal...
...public service. He left Harvard after his junior year, spent three years studying in Japan and living on $25 a month. The penny-pinching existence was nothing new. When he was a boy, his father gave him a 15? weekly allowance: a nickel to spend, a nickel to save, and a nickel for charity...
...result, a discussion of how to save Venice from the sea might run next to a "Fatha" Hines jazz recital, which, in turn, might yield to a summary of domestic opposition to the war in Viet Nam. The propaganda "commercial" may be nothing more than a familiar American melody or a discussion between a Democrat and a Republican, to show without sermonizing that the U.S. does indeed have a two-party system. News, in accordance with listeners' habits, is still presented every 30 minutes, but a sprightly rendering of Yankee Doodle has replaced a pompous version of Columbia...
About this time, Kurt Kiesinger was also making another important decision. Politics in Germany had boiled down to a battle between the Communists and the Nazis, and many Catholic and Protestant leaders saw in the Nazis the only chance to save Germany?and Christianity? from the Red Peril. In 1933?the year that Hitler was elected Reich Chancello ?Kurt Kiesinger became a member of the Nazi Party. It took only a year for Kiesinger to realize that he could not hope to influence developments within Hitler's increasingly brutal movement. For a time he considered emigrating to Brazil...
...came in late October, when he tried to persuade the Free Democrat members of his coalition Cabinet to go along with the tax increase required to balance next year's budget. In the end, stung by accounts that they were caving in to Erhard, the Free Democrats chose to save face by quitting the Cabinet and taking their 49 seats in the Bundestag along with them. Erhard was thus left with West Germany's first minority government. His position was untenable; but who would succeed...