Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vetoing the rivers and harbors and flood control bill, for example, Eisenhower announced that he believed "a sound national policy requires that a comparable measure of responsibility for projects where there are identifiable beneficiaries must remain at the state and local level...
...with great reluctance then that the President approved a $1.8 billion increase in federal spending for highway construction, and he showed similar hesitation when he signed a $1.8 billion housing bill. Eisenhower's equating "sound national policy" with maintaining rigid federal-state relationships is, however, ironic and dangerous, especially at a time when sound national policy requires initiative on the part of the government. The assumption that states are currently capable of sharing equally with the government in any works program is also untenable, since most states are unable to finance their own anti-recession programs...
Eisenhower's concern with balanced budgets, states rights, moderation, and sound business procedure, does not make his economic policy much more attractive or effective. While poverty may not be just around the corner, neither is immediate prosperity. And the tedious trip to recovery is made more unbearable by an Administration which seems to be particularly insensitive to the condition of the unemployed...
Bath Cubes by Guerlain. But the critics sound as if they might be kinder to Bond's non-U. penchant for drop-kicking the men and devil-dealing the ladies if he were not such a dandy among the consumer goods, a slave to "crude snob-cravings." The monocle glitters over the private-eyeful afforded by Agent Bond. He smokes Macedonian cigarettes marked with three gold rings. He drinks Dom Perignon champagne, drives a Bentley. At Blades, a posh St. James's Street club that he frequents, "no newspaper comes to the reading room before it has been...
Most of the changes desired by the Masters relate to the dining halls. Sound-proofing, building dining rooms for small meetings, and removing steam tables from the main hall are among the "pipe dreams" suggested by House officials...