Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pointed as when Bundy was around. From that time on, Bundy had President Johnson's full confidence. And when Bundy routinely submitted his resignation after Johnson was elected in his own right in 1964, he got it back with a notation: "Why do you do things like this? Stop...
...task for a lack of "clarity." After all, the Russians sniffed, how can a fact-finding committee be truly impartial if it doesn't even condemn the U.S. in advance? "There is no demand [in the proposal] to withdraw American troops from Viet Nam," chided Izvestia, "nor to stop the barbarian bombardments of North Viet...
...close their doors. By 1955, largely because of pressure from college administrations, only ten specific discrimination clauses remained. By 1964, at least 125 colleges had adopted policies condemning such discrimination, and more than 50 had ordered local chapters not only to get rid of bias clauses but to stop racial or religious discrimination in actual practice. The barriers generally have fallen first for Jews, then Negroes...
They discovered that some types of internal pacemakers are so designed that a diathermy machine operated within three feet of them causes interference; the pacemaker pulses so fast that the heart cannot keep up, and so it will stop or just twitch. The same interference occurs within six inches of a neon sign, or close to the frequency-regulating coils of radio transmitters. One form of diathermy is commonly used in doctors' offices for simple surgery such as removal of warts. Human tissues afford some shielding for a patient with an implanted pacemaker, but interference may still be dangerous...
...major Western powers to end their stalemate over how to overhaul monetary arrangements. French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing cheered a throng of European financiers by indicating that France's position on monetary reform has become more flexible; he called for changes that stop short of a return to a gold standard...