Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother was as you've described the poverty-stricken-dull and depressed. We all looked at Jimmy in helpless despair. We knew that in all likelihood, he would either become depressed and his IQ would gradually go down to a dull level, or he would use his brains for crime or some other sociopathic activity. The point of this is not the trouble Jimmy will eventually cost this nation but the cost in terms of the loss. We in this nation cannot afford such waste. We are all the poorer because we have lost that little...
From Hanoi's viewpoint, of course, the U.S. was stalling too. U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman noted that the U.S. had fully expected Hanoi to use the talks, particularly in the early stages, to whip up worldwide pressure on the U.S. to halt its air raids against the North. "They wouldn't have come," said he, "unless they had expected more than propaganda out of this exercise." Accordingly, Harriman proposed that both sides get down to substantive and secret discussions. For the present, Hanoi has pooh-poohed the suggestion. Nevertheless, U.S. diplomats expect Hanoi to realize eventually that...
...negatives, and then change those characteristics that voters find unattractive. Taking advice from their pollsters, California Democratic Chief Jesse Unruh peeled off 90 lbs. to reshape his corpulent boss image, and Pennsylvania Democrat Milton Shapp discarded his maroon socks (but lost the 1966 gubernatorial race anyway). Candidates also use private polls to find out where the large and decisive mass of swing voters is located, and then concentrate their campaigning in those areas. Most important, polls tell what issues the voters really care about and how deeply they care...
Meaningless & Poignant. Inevitably, De Gaulle's political enemies sought to use the disorders as an excuse to bring down the government of his hand-picked Premier, Georges Pompidou, 56, who more and more was acting and speaking like a dauphin in the crisis. Both the Communists, France's second largest party after De Gaulle's own U.N.R., and the Federation of the Left, led by Francois Mitterrand, tabled a joint censure motion in the National Assembly...
Barbara Castle's job is to convince them-or at least see that they hew the line. She can refer violators to the Prices and Incomes Board, which can revoke and fine them, but plans to use discipline only "in the nature of reserve powers." Instead, she has already announced her own positive "interventionist", policy, inviting unions to negotiate wage increases of any size-as long as they are based on equal gains in productivity. She was quick to applaud just that kind of an agreement recently (even though it will boost some wages 46% over three years) between...