Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure just what new formula would work until Oregon's Edith Green suggested that state and local officials be given the control over local programs that they had long asked for. The leadership agreed, not only mollifying Southerners but also assuring that big-city Democratic machines would throw their all into the battle. The dramatic change had been found. "Bossism and boll weevil!" cried an outraged Charlie Goodell. The remark won his cause few Southern votes...
...didn't know what to do with me, so he took me to see this lieutenant," deadpans Smith. "The officer kind of went crazy. 'Don't you know there's a war on?' he asked me. 'Don't you watch television?' Sure, I said...
Cheaper Exports. When Clement Attlee's Labor government last devalued the pound in 1949 (from $4.03 to $2.80), 23 nations followed by devaluing their own currencies. This time, several countries-Ireland, Denmark, and Israel-almost immediately followed Britain's move by devaluing, and others are sure to follow this week, particularly within the British Commonwealth. The Common Market countries immediately decided not to follow Britain's lead, and the U.S. lost no time in announcing that it has no intention of devaluing the dollar. In a White House statement, President Johnson said that he could "reaffirm unequivocally...
...Larger Market. The ripples of the pound's plunge inevitably reach far beyond Britain. The U.S. had long pressed massive loans on Wilson in lieu of devaluation because it feared the effect on the dollar. "If it can happen to sterling," observed one Treasury consultant, "people are sure to ask, can't it happen to the dollar too?" Some probing speculation against the dollar this week seemed likely...
Springer, to be sure, makes an inviting target. With eight newspapers and six magazines, he is West Germany's biggest publisher. He controls 31% of the circulation of all of Germany's daily newspapers, a percentage few other Western publishers come close to matching.* His rather sensational Bild Zeitung, published in Hamburg with a Berlin edition, has a circulation of 4,446,000, largest of any paper on the Continent. His more thoughtful Die Welt (circ. 280,000) is one of Germany's most influential papers. Its Sunday edition, along with Springer's other paper, Bild...