Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poverty, or all of them? Wilbur J. Cohen, a Washington veteran dating back to the early days of the New Deal, was becoming the new Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Did that presage a new emphasis on domestic programs that have been getting increasingly short shrift as the war has intensified...
...appointment must be approved by the Senate, and some time before he enters his new Pentagon office in July, Westmoreland will be pressed to explain to congressional committees how and why the U.S. design for Viet Nam has fallen so far short of its original expectations-and what should be done next...
...this usually amounts to what Penologist Howard Gill calls "birdshot penology." All the bands, baseball, radios and rodeos cannot gloss the fact that real rehabilitation is rare. Caging still outranks curing; short funds dilute short-stay effectiveness. And prison job-training is a scandal. Federal prisons do well; yet only 17% of released federal inmates find jobs related to their prison work. Most state prisoners get no usable training because business and unions have rammed through laws preventing competition by prison industries. At least one-third of all inmates simply keep the prison clean-or do nothing...
...complete the biggest change in the IMF's 24 years: creation of a new international money - paper gold - to take the pressure off dollars, pounds and real gold in bankrolling world trade and investment. It goes by the clumsy name of "Special Drawing Rights," or SDKs for short. Actually, SDKs would have some characteristics of currency and some of credit. They would consist of wholly artificial reserves, carried on the IMF's books as a separate fund and backed by pledges of contributions from IMF members in their own currencies. Nations would automatically participate in accordance with their...
...Joint Committee of the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Radcliffe Administration recommended at its meeting Monday night broader opportunities for "short-term casual employment" at Radcliffe for Cliffies...