Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John son "in no way placed me in the role of defying the President or the Johnson Administration" - which was how many had described the board's move. It was the timing of the rate hike that chiefly irked the President, who would have preferred that the board wait until after he presented his budget to Congress in January. On broad economic policy, said Martin, "I think the President and the Federal Reserve System have exactly the same objectives. I know I speak for the entire system when I say that we are doing everything in our power...
...says Galbraith. But won't future books offer a much better perspective? Says Author Theodore H. White, who has written a good deal of instant history himself: "It's not that the future will write it better-just different." Schlesinger himself replies that "it is unfair to wait until other participants in events recounted are dead-grossly unfair. People who are alive can make their own answers, and the clash of judgments enriches the record...
Almost 1,000 Cuban exiles milled anxiously about the lobby and observation platforms of Miami's International Airport. "Do you have someone coming over?" one Cuban asked another. The man crossed his fingers. "We wait. We hope. We pray," he said...
...does not matter so long as the display catches the eye. Comments the display director for a big department store outside Washington: "Decorations act as a little alarm clock to tell people that Christmas is just around the corner. They are a way to remind people that if they wait until the last minute they won't get their shopping done...
...granting deferments, the law states only that local boards should wait as long as possible to induct men whose activity is in the national interest. And although the boards are requested by state and national headquarters to grant 2-S deferments to students, they are not required by law to do so. "The 2-S status," says Hershey, "is merely a courtesy that the boards grant students because they believe they will be more valuable when they complete their courses." Even in granting exemptions, the law is so vague that local boards are almost completely autonomous...