1973 Housing and Urban Development Legislation: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 2839 pages |
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Page 1057 - Thus we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
Page 189 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say, "This thing's to do," Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't.
Page 187 - Disraeli once said there are three kinds of lies: lies; damned lies; and statistics.
Page 160 - Act, to assist the several States and their political subdivisions to alleviate present and recurring unemployment and to remedy the unsafe and insanitary housing conditions and the acute shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for families of low income...
Page 642 - Living backwards!" Alice repeated in great astonishment. "I never heard of such a thing!" " — but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways." "I'm sure mine only works one way," Alice remarked. "I ca'n't remember things before they happen." "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,
Page vi - Counsel for the American Association of Retired Persons and the National Retired Teachers Association.
Page 642 - I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing!" "That's the effect of living backwards," the Queen said kindly: "it always makes one a little giddy at first " "Living backwards !" Alice repeated in great astonishment. "I never heard of such a thing!" " — but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.
Page 161 - The conservation and expansion of the Nation's housing stock in order to provide a decent home and a suitable living environment for all persons, but principally those of low and moderate income; 4.
Page 740 - Some reassurance on the need for such a program is given in the testimony earlier in 1968 before the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency by Secretary Robert C.
Page 764 - With respect to the suggestion that the President has a constitutional power to decline to spend appropriated funds, we must conclude that existence of such a broad power is supported by neither reason nor precedent.