Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech, was a two-step approach: first, tax reduction paying lip service to reform; then, perhaps much later, real reform, sweetened with additional cuts. Concluded the President: "A high order of statesmanship and determination will be required if the possible is not to wait on the perfect. But a nation capable of marshaling these qualities to meet a sudden and dramatic threat to its security is surely equally capable of meeting a creeping and complex threat to our economic vitality...
...ends meet, the country needs massive help from outside-and of course expects to get it from the U.S. Fortnight ago, as collateral for emergency loans, Brazil shipped its last $80 million worth of gold to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. International oil suppliers have agreed to wait till next year to be paid for this year's imports. Such measures should enable Brazil to live on a hand-to-mouth basis until early 1963. After that, it presumably depends on another bailout by the U.S. Last week President Kennedy made it clear that U.S. help depends...
...Wait for Evidence. Medical scientists' best guess as to how thalidomide damages the fetus is that rapidly dividing cells mistake it for either glutamic acid or a B vitamin, absorb it, and fail to develop normally. In theory, thalidomide might block the metabolic processes of rapidly dividing cancer cells by the same mechanism. But thalidomide failed dismally in its first routine trials against animal cancers in the U.S., and has shown no promise in more detailed tests now in progress...
...tranquilizer-sleeping pill were called in from U.S. investigators last April, cancer researchers may still use it -certainly in male patients and women beyond child-bearing age. It is not available to physicians generally, and even the few qualified cancer investigators who can get thalidomide will probably wait for it to show results in animals before they give it to patients...
...China is wonderful, wait till you meet Mao. He is revered in Snow's China like no one since Confucius. He speaks in witty epigrams, travels humbly among the people, even wears old cotton socks that droop charmingly around his ankles. Mao's dearest wish, Snow reports, is to visit the U.S., if only to swim the Potomac. And though Snow argues that the U.S. ought to quit its "aggressive outposts" like Formosa, Japan, South Viet Nam and South Korea, he sees the rude failure to invite Mao over for a visit as the "great error...