Word: effected
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...imposition of a coalition government through negotiation against the wishes of Saigon. There is speculation that Nixon may announce his plan-perhaps linking it with new troop withdrawals-in an address to the nation this month. It would be logical for him to time the announcement for maximum effect on the congressional elections. But White House aides insist that if Hanoi expects changes in basic Administration policy for domestic reasons, it is mistaken. Whatever the Hanoi regime expects, a spokesman for its delegation in Paris described reports of a new American proposal as "only for political purposes." Moreover, Saigon sees...
Bayh was quick to point out that the measure itself was never allowed to come to a floor vote. The effect was the same: the survival of the electoral vote system is assured through 1972 and perhaps beyond...
...group's 18 members, twelve viewed pornography positively. As evidence, they cited one study in which "substantial proportions" of people exposed to erotica believed that the effect on them had been "socially desirable." Participants in experiments that exposed married couples to films and literature traditionally reserved for stag parties claimed that the experience "lowered inhibitions" between husband and wife, increased "willingness to experiment" and heightened "satisfaction with marital sex life...
...turn into Smut Alley." Senator Thomas Dodd's Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency prepared to summon commission members for some sharp questioning about the panel's mandate. In the opinion of some angry Congressmen, the investigators had ignored their assigned tasks of defining obscenity and pornography, determining its effect on children, and proposing federal antismut laws. Other Congressmen began filling the hopper with the restrictive bills that had been held up awaiting completion of the panel's work. Already reported by the House Judiciary Committee: an Administration bill to ban use of the mails for delivery of unsolicited...
...keeping prices down on essential imports. It will also give American G.I.s a better exchange rate. Other reforms included sizable increases in interest rates on most loans and attempts to discourage hoarding and speculation. A 16% increase in civil servants' and soldiers' salaries will help cushion the effect of devaluation on their fixed incomes...