Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes nonsense, most of it screechingly funny and played by knockabouts who know that the slapstick was invented for keeping an idea aloft, not for beating it into the ground. Jack Lemmon, too often compelled to flail around in boudoirs as the All-American lecher, demonstrates that he can wipe the leer off his face and make homicidal impulses more hilarious than hard breathing...
...immigration proposals, similar to those recommended in 1963 by John Kennedy, constitute a drastic overhaul of an anachronistic, 40-year-old law. One key provision would wipe out the "Asia-Pacific triangle" arrangement that effectively bars all but a smattering of Oriental immigrants to the U.S. This, and other liberalization of the law, would be accomplished by ending the present national quota system, which, said the President, is "incompatible with our basic American tradition" and "does incalculable harm...
...fundamental developments in strengthening the foundations of the regime!" That seemed to rule out a coup. At 1:30 a.m. the radio came clean: the announcer read off four new decrees that will take Syria's wobbly Baath (Renaissance) socialist government far down the Marxist road and virtually wipe out private ownership of Syria's major industries...
Johnson admits that his "unconditional war" against poverty, fueled with an appropriation of $784,200,000, is no more than a start, but at least it is something. "I have no illusions," he said, "that $1 billion or $10 billion will wipe out poverty. I don't expect to see it in my lifetime. But we can minimize it, moderate it, and in time eliminate it." Though his last request was cut by nearly $200 million, he may ask Congress for $2 billion...
...problems are as monumental as ever. Galloping population growth threatens to wipe out the hemisphere's slim, hard-won gains in housing, education, health, and food production. In many countries, inflation seems incurable. As always, Latin economies desperately need foreign investment capital. But for all their frustrations, the Latin American nations succeeded this year for the first time in meeting the Alianza's goal of an overall 3% per capita product growth rate. Latin American export earnings rose 8%. And paced by the U.S., which has already invested $3.7 billion in the Alianza, there has been a notable...