Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consideration about the volunteer army is that it could eventually become the only orderly way to raise armed forces. The draft, though it will prevail by law at least through 1971, is under growing attack. In the mid-'50s, most military-age men eventually got drafted, and the inequities of exempting the remainder were not flagrant. Now, despite Viet Nam, military draft needs are dropping, partly because in 1966 Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara started a "project 100,000," which slightly lowered mental and physical standards and drew 70,000 unanticipated volunteers into the forces. Meanwhile, the pool...
...Spectacular lassitude and office absenteeism" prevail in the Federal Trade Commission, a group of Harvard and Yale law students charged in a 185-page report released yesterday...
...federal "educational opportunity grants" to 1,000,000 students who could not otherwise afford college. Under the terms of the proposed grants, direct federal assistance would go to students rather than colleges. As a result, colleges would find themselves competing for students. The law of the marketplace would prevail, and institutions would have extra incentive to at tract students by making courses more responsive to their needs and desires. Since tuition alone no longer covers the cost of college instruction, additional federal assistance would be funneled directly to the colleges in proportion to the number of extra students...
...state's right to protect itself and its citizens, and the individual's right to protest, dissent, and oppose." And, with extraordinary civil libertarian vigor, Fortas contends that the U.S. government "recognizes and has always recognized that an individual's fundamental moral or religious commitments are entitled to prevail over the needs of the state...
...power, visionary Demasiado goes on scheming for American (or Russian) money to build a dream capital in the jungles of his country. Aspinwall goes on fighting to prove that honesty, if not justice, will prevail in political affairs. As the author records in lean, reportorial prose, in any struggle to salvage both dignity and power from such a situation, the winner takes nothing. Well, almost nothing...