Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion revenue-raising measure only last week, the President is understandably loath to request further tax increases for a while. The bill, raising excise taxes on autos and phone calls and speeding up corporate and individual income tax payments, was signed by Johnson at 8:12 one evening, a scant three hours after Congress had passed it, thus assuring the Government an extra $1,000,000 in revenue.-"That more than makes up for the lights we are using," he quipped...
...educational, all right. The experts, in remarkable agreement, were of scant comfort to the committee's clamorous antiwar faction. On Viet Nam, their testimony in all but accent virtually echoed Lyndon Johnson. The conflict is not a civil war, as Fulbright and many other liberals like to think, said Harvard Historian John K. Fairbank, but rather the current arena for what may be a longterm, historical struggle between the U.S. and China. He reasoned that the Communists must be stopped in their attempt to take over South Viet Nam, which he regards as their testing ground for other potential...
Absence of Avocado. What few Westerners remarked in Eastern Europe, however, were the things that are understandably absent, or purposely hidden from view. Traffic is scant even on the main streets of a capital (Rumania's automobile population is a mere 10,000 among 19 million citizens). Khrushchevian "goulash"-the consumer goods that all Eastern European governments now crave-is evident but still in short supply. Because of economic planning that, despite reforms, is still harshly controlled from the top, there may be a glut of pineapple and an absence of avocado. Shoe prices can soar as high...
...instead for the governorship against George Romney, the Republican incumbent. Jerry might well face a financial problem if he opposes Soapy. Williams could probably count on the money support of the state's Democratic organization and, as heir to a toiletries fortune, is personally wealthy. Cavanagh has scant private means. Nevertheless, the mayor bases his hopes on the fact that more than half of Michigan's Democratic votes are in Detroit's Wayne County. "If I run for anything," said Cavanagh, "it will be for the Senate...
...Federal Government, which rarely enough finds itself at a loss to devise ways of spending money, has $2.8 billion cluttering its coffers and scant notion of how to get rid of it. The funds are piled up in nonconvertible foreign currencies from Conakry to Colombo. "We have used all the money we can in every way we can," confessed a State Department official last week. "We are no longer making even a dent in the accumulation. We've got to do more...