Word: spite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home and community has not been enough for "Whitie." Now his White Vietnam war is jeopardizing the Black man's total existence. "Mass Black Genocide" is what it's become known as in the Black communities. A lot of credit and respect is due the Black man. He in spite of the White pressures, White chains of oppression and White discrimination has managed to maintain a family structure. He has managed to work his way onto the stage of life where the lights of opportunity shine brightly. And he has made his mind up to take himself a major role...
Easier Loans. The first area that they intend to work in is housing. Surging since the beginning of the year because of demand and in spite of higher interest rates, new-home starts slipped in May by 16%, fell even further in June. To make it easier to obtain housing money and thereby induce more people to buy houses, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board last week ordered a change. The board reduced the required liquidity for savings and loan associations from 7% to 61%; this means that S & Ls need keep $600 million less in reserves and will have...
...that, with the tax increase," he will reduce saving but continue to spend. In a study released by Commercial Credit Co., University of Michigan Professor Paul W. McCracken estimated that the average American is in a mood to spend, should increase his buying of durable goods by 8% in spite of tax increases...
...that any government has held in nearly 100 years. In the process, Pompidou, who had never held a political office before he became Premier six years ago, gained considerable political stature in France. He became, in fact, the first Gaullist politician to develop an identity of his own in spite of De Gaulle's overshadowing presence. Pompidou's success became his downfall...
...when the courtroom debate finally ended, he asked Paris Art Dealer Alfred Daber to spend up to six months studying the essential question: Do the disputed works bear Guino's "personal stamp, even a modest one," or can they be considered "as belonging entirely to Auguste Renoir in spite of Guino's skill and dexterity"? The final decision will presumably be based on Daber's artistic critique...