Word: unsought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this book, Proxmire brings together all his criticisms of the Pentagon and its suppliers. He takes his text from Dwight Eisenhower's valedictory warning against "unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex...
Last week President Nixon signed into law a bill giving him unsought power to allow the Federal Reserve Board to regulate the terms, amount and interest rates of all forms of credit. But the President, in keeping with his strong objections to most Government interference in the marketplace, made it clear that he has no intention of using the authority. The measure was sponsored by Chairman Wright Patman and other Democrats on the House Banking Committee. Nixon said that he signed only because the bill also extended the Government's expiring power to regulate interest rates paid to depositors...