Word: setups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Special Assistant's first task will be to recruit a "very strong" scientific advisory group which has been described as an "essential part" of Eisenhower's revamping of the nation's scientific defense setup...
...referendum petition against the school appointments have carried over into the present campaign and are the base of the organzation. Some candidates who have strong organizations of their own in normally non-CCA wards rely mainly on their own workers, but for the non-incumbents the CCA setup is vital...
...President, I do not think I have the right to refuse." In 1952 Conservative Antoine Pinay had made himself a hero by "saving the franc." But last week his proposals to hold the line on taxes, slash expenditures and economize on France's burgeoning social security setup promptly met Socialist hostility, and it looked as if Coty would have to find somebody else to save the franc...
Fortnight ago U.S. Treasury agents arrested George and two other men in Boston, then sped to Worthington to confiscate a complete counterfeiting setup in Humphrey's cellar, including $5,500 in inexpertly printed $10 and $20 bills, as well as negatives and plates for making Canadian currency and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. stock certificates...
Many members of Congress would rather ignore the porcupine than vote for any such new program. But even farmers have come to realize that the present setup cannot last. Wonders an Oregon wheat farmer: "Is the taxpayer going to stand for it? I can't think any program relying on Government help in the long run is an answer. It's phony, phony as hell." A Utah farmer looks at it the same way: "You can't buy a solution to the farm problem by spending more and more money. So why don't they stop...