Word: sure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure that the article hit hard at the older generation, but they have a harder blow to anticipate-the class...
...strong enough, he should have little trouble getting his day in court. He need only refuse to be drafted, like Muhammad Ali, or burn his draft card, like David O'Brien, whose conviction has just been upheld by the Supreme Court. These days, such actions are almost sure to bring prosecution and a chance to argue the case before a judge and jury. But what of the average draftee who feels he should be either reclassified or excused from service, yet shies away from deliberate violation...
...advertising industry has been attacked so often that it might scarcely have noticed one more critical book, but the Reader's Digest was not so sure. At the very last moment, it stopped publication of The Permissible Lie, by Samm Baker, on the grounds, as Digest President Hobart Lewis put it, that "advertising is good for business and business is good for the country...
...Sure, we badly underestimated our growth factor," admits Deputy General Manager Robert C. Davidson. "But no one could accurately forecast the fantastic growth that air travel has experienced in the past six years." He has a point. In 1959, the first full year of commercial jet travel, 51 million domestic passengers boarded planes in U.S. airports. Less than ten years later, the total has more than doubled, to 115 million. Predictions-which will probably fall short of the mark-are that 280 million people will be flying in 1975 Airport congestion will thereby increase even more unless something is done...
Serious & Difficult. In the aftermath of the aluminum settlement, that industry's leaders, Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser, promptly raised prices by 4% on primary ingots as well as a number of fabricated products. A hefty settlement in the current negotiations, similarly, is almost sure to result in steel price increases, which will make it even more difficult for U.S. steelmakers to compete against foreign companies. The union contends that the best way to combat the problem is by imposing quotas on steel imports, but that solution, obviously favored by the companies as well, runs afoul of the Administration...