Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That's why, for the most part, the Joe Fridays in the nation's police departments operate out of the detective bureaus, taking care of what James Q. Wilson terms "law enforcement"--the job of solving felony cases such as homicide and grand larceny. Most of these cases have a clearly defined object--catching the criminal--which challenges the tough, analytical minds of the Fridays...
...discontent started soon after Britain's four-year-old monetary crisis, which has forced Wilson to undertake salvage measures that the unions claim have put an intolerable pinch on workingmen. Britain is mired in its longest period of high unemployment since World War II. Money is tight, and prices have crept upward since last November's devaluation. Britain depends heavily on imports, notably food, and the lowering of the pound's value relative to foreign currencies made imports more expensive. At the same time, to hold down the price of British goods abroad, the government, over bitter...
...endure another 18 months of "ultimately rewarding" belt tightening, as Jenkins proposed. By a margin of 5 to 1, they gave resounding approval to the defiant Cousins' resolution. It was the first time that a party conference had split with the government on a key issue since Wilson assumed the Labor leadership in 1963. The vote was thus a stinging rebuke to Wilson personally, but it will have no immediate effect on the Labor government's economic policies, because wage and price restraints are now the law. The vote will make more difficult the renewal of the measures...
Defending the Bastions. By the time Wilson took his turn to speak, delegates were thirsting for uplift. As the Labor vote shrank in one by-election after another, men and women with lifetimes of service lost their posts as local officials on town councils and school boards. Moreover, to many fervent socialists, Wilson's economic policies have added up to a betrayal of their lifelong principles. And yet, as head of the party, he was still the only man to whom they could turn for inspiration...
...reasoned and thoughtful critics that Wilson spoke, but to the party's rank-and-file faithful. "This has been a rough year for all of us in this movement," he began. Then, without growing defensive about his economic policies, he proceeded to reel off streams of statistics designed to make his listeners feel proud of Labor's accomplishments. Identifying their problems with his own, Wilson observed that "we have gone through a great deal together in defense of everything we stand for." Finally, as London's Times observed, "hamming it unmercifully, but hamming it like...