Word: impoverished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soil-bank" proposal looked like a political convincer. It was not a new plan; the New Deal put a similar scheme into effect from 1936 to " 1943. But coming from Benson, it was evidence that the Secretary's inflexible opposition to inflexible price supports was no satanic scheme to impoverish U.S. farmers...
...outright gifts to buy the goods, and at the same time refuse foreign imports that could well pay for U.S. exports. The U.S. is quickly approaching the position where it will become heavily dependent upon raw materials imported from abroad. Keeping tariffs, the board argued, would only serve to impoverish Americans, lower their standards of living and deplete their natural resources...
Thus the tendency of most Plan E governments to impoverish the legislative body's authority has been fulfilled in Cambridge. The separation of authority that is basic to the system has been violated, and there is little that Cambridge voters can do about it for the moment. But for the future, at least one solution presents itself: limited tenure for city managers. The proper time limit is, of course, problemmatical. It must be of sufficient duration to allow a manager enough time to gain experience and put it to use, and yet it must be short enough to prevent...