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The only hope which good teachers have for being paid their due is to stop dragging the dead weight of poor teachers up the economic ladder with them. | dragging | {
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The only hope which the public has for getting good teachers is to pay teachers on the basis of merit rather than tenure. | has | {
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Here, as in all sectors of the economy, quality and justice are both dependent on the right of the individual to deal directly with his employer if he so chooses. | deal | {
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On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition. | give | {
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On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition. | make | {
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On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition. | bring | {
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On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition. | face | {
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What we will be sacrificing in any such arrangement will be our power to be selective which is contained in the reciprocal trade principle under which we now operate. | sacrificing | {
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What we will be sacrificing in any such arrangement will be our power to be selective which is contained in the reciprocal trade principle under which we now operate. | be | {
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What we will be sacrificing in any such arrangement will be our power to be selective which is contained in the reciprocal trade principle under which we now operate. | contained | {
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Without this power we lay open any American industry which the Europeans may find it economically profitable to destroy to the will of others. | lay | {
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Without this power we lay open any American industry which the Europeans may find it economically profitable to destroy to the will of others. | find | {
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Without this power we lay open any American industry which the Europeans may find it economically profitable to destroy to the will of others. | destroy | {
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It is this loss of initiative in how we conduct our economy which may lead to the loss of initiative in how we conduct our political affairs. | is | {
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I disagree with Mr. Burnham 's position on the Common Market [ Nov. 18 ] as a desirable organization for us to join. | disagree | {
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I disagree with Mr. Burnham 's position on the Common Market [ Nov. 18 ] as a desirable organization for us to join. | join | {
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For him to ignore the political consequences involved in an Atlantic Union of this kind is difficult to understand. | ignore | {
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For him to ignore the political consequences involved in an Atlantic Union of this kind is difficult to understand. | involved | {
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The pressure for our entry to the Common Market is mounting and we will proceed towards this amalgamated trade union by way of a purely `` economic thoroughfare '', or garden path, with the political ramifications kept neatly in the background. | mounting | {
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The pressure for our entry to the Common Market is mounting and we will proceed towards this amalgamated trade union by way of a purely `` economic thoroughfare '', or garden path, with the political ramifications kept neatly in the background. | proceed | {
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The pressure for our entry to the Common Market is mounting and we will proceed towards this amalgamated trade union by way of a purely `` economic thoroughfare '', or garden path, with the political ramifications kept neatly in the background. | kept | {
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The appeal is going to be to the pocketbook and may be very convincing to those who do not see its relation to political and legal, as well as economic, self-rule. | be | {
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In entering this union we will be surrendering most, if not all, of our economic autonomy to international bodies such as the Atlantic Institute ( recently set up ) or the O. E. C. D., I. M. F. and others. | entering | {
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In entering this union we will be surrendering most, if not all, of our economic autonomy to international bodies such as the Atlantic Institute ( recently set up ) or the O. E. C. D., I. M. F. and others. | set up | {
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If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times ' magazine section [ Nov. 12, 1961 ], by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join the Common Market ''. | is | {
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Referring to Britain, he says, `` We see a nation that traditionally values sovereignty above all else willing to give up its economy, placing this authority in Continental hands ''. | Referring | {
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Referring to Britain, he says, `` We see a nation that traditionally values sovereignty above all else willing to give up its economy, placing this authority in Continental hands ''. | give up | {
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Since the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question of time. | is | {
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Since the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question of time. | mark | {
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Frankly, it is being very cleverly done for, in a sense, they have us over a barrel. | done | {
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Listen to what Mr. Johnston has to say : `` Consider the savage wounds that isolationism would inflict. | Consider | {
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We would lose our export markets and deny ourselves the imports we need. | lose | {
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We would lose our export markets and deny ourselves the imports we need. | deny | {
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We would lose our export markets and deny ourselves the imports we need. | need | {
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We would be crippled by reduced output, industrial decline, widespread unemployment ''. | crippled | {
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But the solution to this dilemma is not the incorporation of the United States into an Atlantic Community or `` economic empire '', but merely what libertarians like Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig von Mises have been arguing for years : an end to government regulations, an end to government competition in industry, and a rea... | is | {
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But the solution to this dilemma is not the incorporation of the United States into an Atlantic Community or `` economic empire '', but merely what libertarians like Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig von Mises have been arguing for years : an end to government regulations, an end to government competition in industry, and a rea... | arguing | {
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Create a free market here, give us a sound, debt-free money system, and we 'll compete with anyone, Europe and Asia combined. | Create | {
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Create a free market here, give us a sound, debt-free money system, and we 'll compete with anyone, Europe and Asia combined. | compete | {
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In short, get this governmental monstrosity off our backs and we won n't have to worry about European competition or Communism either. | get | {
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In short, get this governmental monstrosity off our backs and we won n't have to worry about European competition or Communism either. | worry | {
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If we want to preserve our sovereignty, this is the way to do it ; not acquiesce to an international planning board. | want | {
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If we want to preserve our sovereignty, this is the way to do it ; not acquiesce to an international planning board. | preserve | {
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If we want to preserve our sovereignty, this is the way to do it ; not acquiesce to an international planning board. | is | {
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If we want to preserve our sovereignty, this is the way to do it ; not acquiesce to an international planning board. | acquiesce | {
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If we go into this Common Market, we might just as well stop talking about Constitutional guarantees, Connally Amendments or, for that matter, conservatism in general. | go into | {
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If we go into this Common Market, we might just as well stop talking about Constitutional guarantees, Connally Amendments or, for that matter, conservatism in general. | stop | {
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If we go into this Common Market, we might just as well stop talking about Constitutional guarantees, Connally Amendments or, for that matter, conservatism in general. | talking about | {
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We welcome this able brief for the negative as part of a many-sided discussion of the Atlantic Common Market which NR will be continuing in our pages. | welcome | {
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We welcome this able brief for the negative as part of a many-sided discussion of the Atlantic Common Market which NR will be continuing in our pages. | continuing | {
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The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U. S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed. | were | {
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The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U. S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed. | stopped | {
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The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U. S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed. | selling | {
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The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U. S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed. | anticipating | {
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The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U. S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed. | removed | {
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In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities. | drafted | {
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In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities. | serving | {
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In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities. | required | {
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In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities. | participate | {
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Now, more than five years later, I cannot in any realistic sense be called a trained soldier. | called | {
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But, in spite of this, I, at present a man 31 years of age and a College Professor, have been recalled `` by direction of the President '' to report on November 25 th to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for another twelve months of Active Duty as an Sp 4 ( the equivalent of a PFC ). | recalled | {
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But, in spite of this, I, at present a man 31 years of age and a College Professor, have been recalled `` by direction of the President '' to report on November 25 th to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for another twelve months of Active Duty as an Sp 4 ( the equivalent of a PFC ). | report | {
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Today, seven years after the date of my initial induction as a draftee, I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Science at St. Michael 's College. | am | {
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For, after leaving the Army in 1956, I spent five years in Graduate School first at Boston College and then at the University of Toronto. | leaving | {
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