Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relationship with the man whom he serves-a fact that must please De Gaulle. Up to now, Couve has always acknowledged that he knew who was boss. "There are no problems between myself and the general," he once said. "If there were, my role would be to yield to him." But last week Couve hinted that he would stand-up to the general if need be. "Contrary to what many people think," he told a Gaullist deputy, "I like to argue and even convince...
...surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes as far back as his 1967 State of the Union address, then failed to press for it. Ten months ago he demanded a 10% increase, but a recalcitrant House coalition, led by Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, would not yield without parallel cutbacks in Government outlays. Meanwhile, consumer prices were advancing at an annual rate of 4%, more than twice the average of the early '60s. The gross national product was bubbling toward the $850 billion level, up some $65 billion from last year. Interest rates soared...
...increase as of last Jan. 1, will pay the full additional 10% in taxes. Though the surcharge is supposed to run to next June 30, nobody would be surprised if it were prolonged. In return for the surcharge and some relatively minor revenue measures-which together will yield an estimated $15 billion in the next year-the Administration reluctantly accepted a mandatory $6 billion spending cut by agreeing to a $180.1 billion limit on federal outlays in the new fiscal year...
Quite properly, many observers note that changing gun laws will not help much as long as people yield to the violent impulses that seize them. "Cain and not Abel, is the father of man," notes Chicago Psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim. Half a century ago in The Golden Bough, Anthropologist Sir James Frazer discerned "a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society, unaffected by the superficial changes of religion and culture." To cope with what Sir James described as this "standing menace to civilization," many authorities suggest that a way must be found to control aggression and, as Detroit Psychiatrist...
Despite the obvious risk of a money-losing venture, Foreign Minister Michel Debré insisted last week that France will not back out of the project. Whether that assurance remains valid, of course, depends on the outcome of France's elections. A non-Gaullist French government might yield to the rising pressure to divert government spending to social services. Many Britons, chafing at the Concorde's cost, would like to see it scrapped...