Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves and that the states and localities badly need the money that comes from Washington. Since 1946, state and local spending has soared sixfold, to nearly $100 billion a year-twice what Washington spends on domestic affairs. But the Federal Government gets the lion's share of the nation's most lucrative source of revenue-the personal income tax-and leaves the dregs to the states. Thus, for all the complaints, it is a rare Governor indeed who will turn his back on Government aid. "Just let us have the money," says Iowa's Democratic Governor Harold...
Bringing the idea of federal aid a step further, Walter Heller, former chief of the Council of Economic Advisers, has suggested filling the states' chief need-money-by rebating a percentage of federal income taxes under a formula that would give the poorer states a bigger share. Many experts challenge this plan, insisting that it would be better to cut federal taxes and let the states do their own collecting. Says former Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, a onetime governor of North Carolina: "A plan like Heller's would come nearer to sapping the remaining initiative of the states...
...aggressive apostles of power and centralism, it has largely been moved by necessity in expanding its role in American life. By beginning to put into action the principle of creative federalism, it is simply trying to find the most effective way possible to solve the problems and share the burdens. The future of the federal compact depends on the willingness and ability of the states and cities to help it find that...
...Lady of 39th Street, the Metropolitan Opera House, has a lot of friends to save her from Götterdämmerung. A committee has been lobbying to prevent the building from being demolished to make way for an office skyscraper. Trouble is, the Met itself doesn't share their concern. The company, now housed in Lincoln Center, stands to lose $500,000 per annum in rent on the proposed office building; worse yet, the Met would have to pay a pretty penny just to keep its old home in repair. Taking all that into account, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel...
...Others. Bonhoeffer believed that it was morally right to assassinate Hitler, and had a share in planning an abortive 1943 plot against the Führer's life. That year, however, he was arrested; in 1945 he was tried for treason and hanged by the SS at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria, a few days before the area was liberated by Allied troops. At his death...