Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debate on ROTC had been long and thorough--by contrast with the discussion of Dow's visit last Fall. It had revealed sharp divisions among students as well as professors. There were respectable moral convictions on all sides, and even among those who, like myself, feel that a University is not the proper place for military preparation there were divergences over the answer to the problem. One does not have to be a moral relativist, pace Professor Putnam, in order to want to weigh arguments and take note of the legitimate concerns even of those whose point of view...
What Mills decided not to say was of greater significance. After his meeting with Nixon, he addressed a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers. The advance text of his speech contained sharp criticism of Nixon's proposals to use tax incentives for private enterprise as a principal means of curing social and physical blight in the slums. Mills dropped this portion of his talk. Instead, he said he would consider specific measures along the lines Nixon proposes-if Nixon can persuade him that they are the most efficient way of handling particular problems...
...score of organizations-not least of which is the Federal Government's Office of Economic Opportunity-have encouraged the poor to drop whatever inhibitions they had about welfare. Sharp-eyed lawyers and organizers are discovering hidden benefits that scarcely anyone knew existed. Welfare officials, in turn, are being pressured to grant new benefits, such as money for telephones and Christmas gifts, so that life on welfare can more closely approximate life in the rest of America. Yet the welfare militants have more in mind than just getting a little more. By stretching the current system to its farthest limit...
Gall-bladder disease is becoming more common as the proportion of oldsters in the population increases. The usual form is cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder), resulting from the formation of stones in the gall bladder. Sometimes, the stones immediately signal their presence by causing sharp pain. In such cases, surgery is performed promptly. But many gallstones lie dormant for years-and it is this "silent" type that sent the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Martin A. Adson into debate with fellow surgeons...
...Commerce Department reported that in October the nation's balance of trade stumbled into a $63 million deficit. Exports fell 20% from the September level. For all of 1968, the Commerce Department expects a trade surplus of scarcely $1 billion, in sharp contrast to last year's $4.1 billion and the fat $7 billion as recently...