Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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WELFARE. President Nixon was finally pushing hard for his Family Assistance Plan, which would shift more of the cost of welfare to the Federal Government, and guarantee qualifying families a minimum annual income. While liberals consider the income levels inadequate and the bill full of technical flaws, there was hope...
Dilatory Approach. The battles were not yet over, and it seemed likely that the Senate was about to deny the President his welfare reform and trade quotas, and might still shoot down the SST. It had not even bothered to consider one of his most desired programs: a system of...
It is understandably fashionable these days to decry greeting cards, for Christmas and other occasions, as illogical, frivolous and unnecessary. Indeed, there is something faintly ridiculous about sending a card to fellow office workers whom one sees every day or to friends and relatives who will be more personally remembered...
At that, the student members of the consortium began pushing him. Suspicious that Rockefeller was doing his thing and not theirs, they protested that they had not had time to consider the gift properly−and turned it down. They might reconsider, they said, after the matter was aired in...
Having profited if not learned from the experience, Nabokov in 1969 dealt away the rights to turn Lolita into−what else?−a Broadway musical. While the author seemed calm at the prospect, readers who consider the novel a masterpiece could only be horrified at what Broadway might do...