Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill, which is likely to be accepted by the Senate, raises the maximum debt to $358 billion-$22 billion above the present figure-and effective July 1, 1968, provides for a further "temporary" increase of $7 billion. The original proposal, for a one-step increase this year to the same total of $365 billion, was opposed by House Republicans in a gambit to make headlines with their economy-in-Government line, and they carried along enough Democrats to win. In the second round, Mills and the Administration prevailed by preaching party loyalty and simple economic sense to the Democratic defectors...
...lives to go on a low-fat diet and stick to it. At last week's A.M.A. meeting, the Executive Committee on Diet and Heart Disease reported after a long-term pilot project involving 2,000 men aged 45 to 54 that it was indeed possible. The next step, said the committee, is to seek more conclusive proof by enlisting up to 100,000 men aged 40-59 in a new, $50 million study...
...fired an intermediate-range (1,000 miles) missile last October. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has warned that the Chinese will have effective IRBMs in limited numbers by 1969, and ICBMs capable of reaching the continental U.S. by the mid-1970s. Last week's H-blast was certain to step up clamor in Congress for an immediate start on the deployment of an anti-ballistic missile net. It may also prompt India and other nations to decide to build their own nuclear weapons...
...Executive, and then some. He hires and fires the Premier and the entire Cabinet, serves as Commander in Chief of the armed forces, sets both domestic and foreign policy, oversees the budget, has patronage aplenty, and in time of emergency rules by decree. The job would be a significant step up for Ky, whose present powers as Premier are substantial but ill-defined, or for Thieu, whose Chief of State position, outwardly at least, is largely ceremonial...
...Vietnam can end this type of "aggression" in this century, U.S. policy has begun to develop a logic and momentum of its own. As each escalation fails both to break Hanoi's will and to provoke China's entry, the Administration first hopes, and then believes, that the next step may bring victory over Hanoi and yet not bring Chinese armies pouring into Vietnam...