Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system of state capitalism that at least forestalled the collapse of all production. His distrust grew to resentment as Boumediene filled his Cabinet with technocrats. The resentment turned to outright rebellion when the President began easing the old guerrilla chiefs out of their army commands and installing officers with solid professional military training in their places...
Among the millions of words that have been written about oral contraceptives, none have been more alarming than charges that the pill causes a wide variety of illnesses, some of them serious, and a few of them fatal. Solid statistics have been lacking, but now reliable data are being assembled about two possible major dangers...
...Johnson reminded his listeners of what he has done for them lately and not so lately, including two civil rights laws, immigration reform, an array of urban programs ranging from model cities to rat control, consumer-protection statutes, air-pollution control, minimum-wage increases and, inevitably, "81 months of solid prosperity to break all records in American history." Promptly and conveniently, the Labor Department announced that unemployment from October to November fell from 4.3% to 3.9%, while unemployment among Negroes decreased from...
...faculty and staff members of 19 Northeast universities, which showed 75% "would not express confidence" in the way L.B.J. runs the war. Atop that, 1,271 Cornell signers sent McCarthy a telegram of good cheer. Of the five state primaries he has promised to enter, he was credited with solid strength in three: California, Oregon and Wisconsin. He has also announced that he will run in Massachusetts and Nebraska...
...from Peking to Havana that so-called wars of liberation will not be allowed to succeed. With that in mind, the maximum immediate U.S. goal is to suppress the Viet Cong rebellion, push out the North Vietnamese invaders, preserve South Viet Nam's non-Communist status-and win solid guarantees that the situation will stay stable. The maximum Communist goal, of course, is just the opposite: throw out the Americans, depose the Thieu-Ky government, and establish a regime controlled by the Viet Cong. The V.C. would then unify with the North and support-at least in principle-Communist...