Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strains have further weakened Democratic political machines, diminished mayoral patronage powers and eaten into old special-interest coalitions. Republicans, independents and rebels suddenly have solid chances to win in unexpected places. Some examples...
...Chicago aldermen in a $3 billion air-pollution suit against General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. An estimated 60% of Chicago's air pollution is caused by automobile exhaust, and Lawyer Jerome Torshen plans to attack "the heart of the problem." He hopes to use the results of a special federal investigation prepared by the Justice Department for a similar antitrust suit in California, which charged that the auto companies conspired to keep anti-pollution devices off their cars. The Government recently allowed the companies to settle that case out of court after they agreed not to block any development...
...yoga, which, he says, "turned out to be my salvation." By last Christmas, he had become almost sanguine. On that day, he related, "I felt a quiet sort of joy. I put on my best suit, to the puzzlement of the guards, and I tried to make it special, though I was so alone...
There is usually a lag between newly developed social science techniques and their implementation in foreign policy. During the 1950's, the government had fallen far behind. With Kennedy's election, the New Frontier brought many of Harvard's best into the White House, including McGeorge Bundy as special assistant for National Security Affairs. The Kennedy men brought American foreign policy up to date. The first special forces went into Vietnam...
...there were administrative problems on this special day. After a bowl of Captain Crunch at the training table. I started trying to recruit enough guys for a full team. I really had to wonder about the strength of certain biological drives in Crimson people when only three guys there, including me, agreed to go. And one of them was a business board type. So I got friends to complete the team of six. I brushed my teeth before we left; I had never brushed my teeth before a football game before. Yes, this...