Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show that his Administration was doing its share, Johnson asked his Cabinet to reduce spending by $1.1 billion over the next three months in order to cut the budget deficit to $5.3 billion. He asked the mayors to cut spending too. "The Federal Government is doing it," he said. "I have asked the Governors to do it. I have asked the businessmen, the private managers, to do it, and I am asking the mayors to do it." Very shortly, he added, he would ask "the leaders of the workingmen of this country"-most notably A.F.I.-C.I.O. President George Meany...
...reason for concern: almost all of the guests had grievances with at least one of the others. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie and Somalia's Premier Abdirazak Hussein were hardly on the best of terms now that raids and murder had resumed along the frontier they share. Burundi's Premier Leopold Biha kept well clear of the Rwanda delegation: Watutsi warriors are still massed on the Rwanda side of his border, threatening invasion. The Sudan's Mohammed Mahgoub has reason to resent Uganda's Milton Obote, who harbors Sudanese rebels. Congo Strongman Joseph Mobutu...
Cassius' biggest pain was in his pocketbook. His share of the purse was only $100,000-the smallest payoff to a defending champion since 1952, when Jersey Joe Walcott got $92,000 for fighting Ezzard Charles for the fourth time...
Christianity and Judaism have always had more than their share of men of little faith or none. "The fool says in his heart, 'there is no God,' " wrote the Psalmist, implying that there were plenty of such fools to be found in ancient Judea. But it is not faintness of spirit that the churches worry about now: it is doubt and bewilderment assailing committed believers...
...railroad for whose control they had fought so recently and so desperately. One key to the offer is the upcoming merger of the Central with the Pennsylvania Railroad into a powerful new Penn Central. Alleghany currently holds 14.3% of Central stock; in the Penn Central, however, that share would be diluted to 5.8%. Wrote Ireland in the tender offer: "Alleghany questions the advisability of maintaining almost one-third of its portfolio investments in the stock of a corporation it would not control." Solution: swap Central shares for Alleghany, thereby saving $11.8 million in capital-gains taxes that Alleghany, because...