Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wyoming (3): Uranium boom and missile-base construction brought in new workers, bolstered unions, boosted voter registration, and the Democrats have been working hard to organize them. KENNEDY...
...supporters of his left-wing People's Action Party celebrated its sweep of the island's first general elections. Seventeen months have passed since Lee and his motley crowd of Chinese, Indian and Malay anti-colonialists took over the internal government of the famed imperial base. The most startling change last week seemed to be the change that has come over Singapore's revolutionary rulers...
Incident at Guantanamo? The most interesting word in the Castro vocabulary last week was "auto-provocation." To the U.S.. it sounded as if he might be getting ready to stage an incident, possibly at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo. Time and again he has raged against the base, said he would not attack it, then added: "But who doubts the base is capable of planning an auto-provocation...
...broader tax base responsive to growth would be necessary to finance the greater educational aid that the towns need so badly. Boutin is against the sales and income taxes, but has spoken of possible replacement of the head tax in two or four years. Powell has attacked Boutin's "fantastic" tax program and spending, and urges the state to "continue a government of ALL THE PEOPLE--reject the special interests...
Some economists contend that the service boom is detrimental to U.S. growth, that spending money on haircuts for poodles and diaper service does not add to the base of real wealth. Economist Grover W. Ensley, executive vice president of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks, takes the opposite view: "Today a large segment of service expenditures goes for medical care and education, which represent investments that are very productive in improving the future output of the nation. Even money spent on beautification of the fairer sex may turn out very productive in the long...