Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...element of the Nixon proposal is the elimination of congressional control over the Post Office. The Nixon reform would establish an independent Government agency called the U.S. Postal Service to be run by a nine-man board of directors, seven of whom would be appointed by the President, subject to Senate confirmation. The office of Postmaster General, a Cabinet-rank post, would be abolished...
...When the top U.S. diplomat in Bonn requests an appointment with Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, it is presumably to discuss a subject of considerable import to both of their governments. Thus it raised eyebrows recently-and provoked some snickers-when American Chargé d'Affaires Russell Fessenden was kept waiting while the ambassador of a small Latin American country paid a formal courtesy call on West Germany's chief executive. There was nothing Kiesinger could do about it; by diplomatic protocol, an ambassador has automatic precedence over any lesser rank...
...adults and is the assumption behind his bill. When they are freely available, he believes, "pornographic books and pictures very quickly become boring and distasteful to adults with a normal sexual life." He is backed up by a four-member professional commission that spent two years studying the subject. The public's interest in pornography, he maintains, is mostly "the result of curiosity about what is forbidden...
...images and songs are making the film personal by concentrating on attractive kids, the narration details and analyzes the characters' ideals, the great American drama of growing-up. But here too a balance is achieved by pushing cliches too far, by filling the narration with put-on. The subject of the film remains these ideals as they influence the characters, but Kahin's control of this material and his objectivity toward it never lapse...
Last week the President of the AMA personally told me that "doctors should be free to prescribe as they wish," but overlooked that since each doctor is subject to at least $3000 worth of brand-name brainwash per year, each is likely to be a captive of the drug industry. By definition, a captive is not free...