Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before you destroy a system, propose another that will solve (not hide, shift or disguise) unemployment, "exploitation," war. Anyone can promise Utopia--without specifying a program. Tom Hayden, idol of the New Left, has said: "First we'll make the revolution--then we'll find out what for." Would you employ a plumber who rips out all the pipes in your house before he learned how to repair a leak...
...important shift of defense spending thus affects many interests and individuals. In fiscal 1968, the Defense Department contracted for $38.8 billion in goods and services, plus $6.5 billion for research and development, amounting to 5.3% of the 1968 G.N.P. These funds went to many thousands of prime contractors and subcontractors...
...running all through Unites States society, but offered only rhetorical affirmations as a cure--"we can build a society to man's measure--if we have the will." Gardner acknowledged that "there are things gravely wrong with our society as a problem-solving mechanism," but, except for a slight shift from federal to local government, seemed always to be urging only more and better of the same. The United States "urgently needs leaders to symbolize its values, to clarify choices, to help sift priorities, and most of all perhaps to keep hope alive," Gardner said. That...
...will bring the "gradual" economic slowdown that the Administration wants should be known in a few months. Most taxpayers will be painfully reminded in mid-April that not all of last year's 10% income tax surcharge was covered by their withholding taxes. The federal budget will soon shift to a slight surplus after three years of inflationary deficits. At this point, top Administration officials figure that present measures will begin to bring inflation under control-perhaps without another dose of higher interest rates...
...insignificant choice thus faces those who are now organizing the rent control referendum. They can shift their strategy somewhat, and have a good chance of obtaining something approaching a satisfactory solution to the problem. Or they can continue on their present path, pushing a campaign that is likely to produce little but bitter memories for Cambridge residents...