Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, the absence of affection for the President will probably have little effect in the November elections. For one thing, Johnson has done a great deal for the voters. He has pushed through Congress a remarkable amount of valuable legislation and, despite his foot-dragging on inflation, will still preside over a thriving economy. And, as the year's primary elections have shown, no anti-Administration issues have tak en deep root. Nonetheless, if Lyndon Johnson truly aims-as he surely does -to continue as an effective President, he cannot do so without re-establishing his credibility with...
...cast ballots for some 400 party candidates for statewide and congressional offices-marked the year's largest single week of voting before the general elections seven weeks away. Thus the results suggest that, as usual in off-year elections, local issues and individual personalities will have the greatest effect on the outcome...
...Deputies (out of a 300-man Parliament), in which the balance of power is held by 40-odd Deputies weaned away from Papandreou's once-dominant Center Union Party with promises of Cabinet portfolios, Stephanopoulos has rammed through some tax reforms. Even before they went into effect, collections jumped 35% . Possibly this was because the prosperous shipowners and commercial aristocracy who sometimes take a casual attitude toward taxpaying, decided that economic stability could be in their interest as well as that of Stephanopoulos. Unfortunately, Stephanopoulos has made enemies as well as friends. He has so far enacted no social...
...VITAL part of TIME journalism is the dialogue between writers and editors in New York and reporters in the field. The New York end of the dialogue consists of queries that may be a simple question asking, in effect, "What happened?" Most of the time, however, what happened is already fairly clear in broad terms, and what the editors want is details, consequences, overall meaning...
...gasoline out of their tanks. It is hardly worth the bother trying to get rich at home, and even if an Englishman succeeds, he is forced by exchange controls to spend like a miser abroad. In addition to all these torments, the Selective Employment Tax went into effect last week...