Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand, Banfield attacks government programs from all sides: if they are not trivial, they are ineffective; if by chance they do what they are intended to, they either ignore the central problem of poverty, aggravate it, or, at best, cancel each other out. In any case, (the final stab) effective action against poverty is politically out of the question...
...Stab in the Back." Minister of Lands Charles Percival de Silva, 52, who had helped found the Freedom Party, protested the admission of the Trotskyites, but reported that Mrs. Bandaranaike assured him "she wouldn't change the policies of her husband by so much as the width of the stamen of a mustard flower." When the Trotskyite support was followed by that of the pro-Moscow Communist Party, De Silva had enough. With 13 other Freedom rebels, he bolted to the opposition, causing the government to fall last month by only a single vote...
...Bandaranaike, who stayed on as caretaker chief of the government, denounced the defection as a "stab in the back." De Silva explained that he felt she "was going to betray Ceylon to the Marxists." Ceylon's influential Buddhist monks, alarmed by the Marxist infiltration, began turning against the buxom Prime Minister. They particularly denounced a proposal, put forward by the Communists in the government, to permit the legal tapping of coconut trees and turn the sap into toddy, thus heading off illicit bootlegging and bringing new revenue into the treasury. When Mrs. Bandaranaike tried to win back the monks...
...Making a Stab. All that would send U.S. spending to alltime highs-a record that Johnson is not anxious to break. The biggest previous budget was Kennedy's $98.4 billion in fiscal 1964; Johnson carefully kept his own first budget just below that figure, at $97.9 billion...
...Johnson certainly appeared to be making a stab at it. All last week department and agency heads winged in and out of the L.B.J. Ranch. Without exception, they emerged glassy-eyed over the President's cost-cutting efforts. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz told reporters: "There has been consideration given in the last few hours to the fact that we have been spending $12,500 (out of $511 million) on newspapers in the Department of Labor. We are going to cut that to $11,000." Outgoing Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges recalled that the President had inquired if he might...