Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year, Congress has scaled down some goals by trimming appropriations $4.5 billion, and not all those cuts were wise. Last week, under pressure from Congress, President Johnson offered a further cut of $2.6 billion by paring 10% from outlays for "controllable" programs and 2% from personnel costs. Even with that, federal spending in this fiscal year will climb to $136 billion, as measured by the administrative budget, and the deficit will be close to $20 billion-highest since the World War II era. That threatens to tighten credit and increase interest rates, raise consumer prices and debilitate the dollar...
FREDERICK by Leo Lionni (Pantheon; $3.50). A twist on the standard story of wise little animals storing away food for the winter ahead. Frederick, a field mouse, sits through the summer, collecting sun rays, colors and words while his friends gather grain. In the middle of winter, when his friends' food is exhausted, Frederick's warm colors and bright words make them forget their hunger. "Frederick," they acknowledge, "you are a poet...
...conference committee opted for the House bill, Kennedy defied tradition by warring on the conference committee report. The Senate backed him, 55 to 22, a notable personal triumph. Yet he made no enemies in the process. "He isn't sneaky," says one of his adversaries. "He isn't a wise...
...COLLECTED STORIES OF ANDRE MAUROIS. In 38 tales framed as conversations, recollections and letters, the late distinguished partisan in the battle of the sexes takes a deep look at women who are either wise or foolish, vital or declining, in love or remembering what it was like...
...campaign will turn into a holding operation, coalescing the party's moderates and keeping them in the forefront until another middle-of-the-road candidate with a realistic chance of gaining the nomination can step in. Cheering Romney last week on his announcement, Nelson Rockefeller observed: "A wise national Republican Party will choose a moderate, able, winning candidate in 1968." Despite all of Rocky's disclaimers, some Republicans thought that rather than prescribing for Romney, he was describing Nelson Rockefeller...