Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liberalism, Hall said, is the "slow and only politics of reform, with a basic belief in the goodness of man." While liberals have faith in the system, leftist radicals "hate the system, and seek ways of disruptive change...
Foreseeing "seemingly endless" demonstrations and riots against the United States by "the very men we seek to sustain in power," the letter demands that we "initiate negotiations while there is still time...
While both Rockefeller and Wagner quite naturally denied a deal, both came out of the mess rather well. Wagner, who announced that he would seek a fourth term as mayor, gained in prestige, picked up control of over $4,000,000 in patronage; the Governor enhanced the chances for approval of his record $3.5 billion budget, which includes a $530 million tax increase. As for Bobby Kennedy, he allowed as how he had not really been involved in the fight anyhow. But, he said grimly, it "is unfortunate that things have developed to the point that the leadership...
...Urge. What the reforms seek to do is liberate the Soviet economy from the stifling economic dictatorship that Stalin imposed on it as a mirror image of his political tyranny. Determined to rush the transition to industrial power that had taken the U.S. and Britain 200 years to accomplish, he turned Russia into a gigantic state corporation that ruthlessly seized every bit of excess capital it produced in order to feed it back into its heavy industries-above all, steel-which are the sinews of a modern economy. With such a single-minded goal, planning was relatively easy...
...Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964 were designed to meet this problem, but they have not succeeded. The major difficulty in the past has been that victims of discrimination have had to seek relief through the courts. And this is a slow and expensive process. Individuals may have to risk their lives and livelihoods to secure their rights. Even the Justice Department does not have a large enough staff to research and prepare the hundreds--perhaps thousands--of cases which may be necessary to strike down voting barriers...