Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vice-presidential candidates generally get excellent training to serve as No. 2 men. They spend much of their campaigns in the boondocks, are subject to unnerving changes of schedule, and go largely unnoticed. This year, however, the veep candidates are attracting more attention than usual, one because he is proving a more promising prospect than most people suspected, the other because of his monumental boo-boos...
...nation can reach the point at which it does not buy more security for itself simply by buying more military hardware," he cautions, "and we are at that point." The U.S. and the Soviets, he suggests, have reached a Mexican standoff: "It is futile for each of us to spend $4 billion, $40 billion or $400 billion-and at the end of all the spending ... to be relatively at the same point of balance on the security scale that we are now . . . What the world requires is not a new race toward armament, but a new race toward reasonableness...
...admissions of discontent him at a more deep-seated malaise, but the most obvious manifestation of this search for escape is the fervor with which the Israelis desire peace. Their understandable eagerness to be free from fear is always accompanied by statements like "then we will not have to spend all our time preparing...
...Columbia Left, then, initiates the action. If they take over a building, they then see if the liberals will decide to follow. If they don't get enough general support, the Left gives a little; but this way they don't have to spend a lot of time voting and deciding in the beginning...
Though agencies often take on campaign work as much out of political conviction as for profit, the stakes are higher this year than ever before. National and local candidates will spend something like $50 million on radio and television advertising, compared with $34.5 million in 1964. Most of that will go for TV time, and even the networks are becoming defensive about the cost. Lately, they have been passing the word that candidates can get discounts of up to 50% on standard rates, which can run as high as $70,000 for a minute of prime time. There is only...