Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scared to Death. Rusk was even unhappier after his second confrontation with the committee. He expected to spend no more than an hour explaining a $415 million supplemental aid appropriation, mostly for Viet Nam, for he had already repeatedly and eloquently rehearsed all the arguments...
...Predict." The Government will spend $670 million less for defense housing. Funds for the Atomic Energy Commission were slashed by $90 million. Other savings range from a $2.8 million cut in State Department cultural programs to a $100,000 reduction in translating foreign-fishery reports. In addition, the President requested restoration of the recently canceled excise tax on cars and telephones, proposed to speed up tax collections and sell federal mortgages to private investors. Thus, with revenue from a 1966 gross national product estimated in the budget at $722 billion-up $46 billion from 1965's record-the Administration...
Consistent Sounds. Sullivan's system requires children to spend their first eight weeks learning the alphabet from their teacher. But they are not taught all the sounds of all the letters. His "structural linguistics" approach keeps children from the confusing phonetic inconsistencies of the language (the 40 different sounds conveyed by the letter a, for example) until they grasp the fact that in general, letters correspond to sounds...
...popular myth that Congressmen spend most of their time campaigning for re-election has no basis in fact. Most members of the House need not electioneer full-time in order to retain their seats; in six of the seven elections held from 1950 through 1962, fewer than 100 seats were won by a narrow margin (less than 55 per cent of the vote). Pressures for reelection have been exaggerated, often as an excuse for a Congressman's failure to do other things. Constituent service is not a burden since it its handled, in the offices...
...month on the profits, hirsute Drum-beatle Ringo Starr, 25, let even more of the follicles sprout, wound up looking like a puckish Rasputin. "I hate shaving anyway," he itched. With that, Ringo took off with beardless John Lennon and their beatlemates, Maureen, the ex-hairdresser, and Cynthia, to spend ten days on Tobago, the storied Caribbean island home of shaggy Robinson Crusoe...