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The public should understand that whether they support a state hospital or a VA hospital, the tax dollar has to be paid one way or the other. | paid | {
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The responsibility is still going to be there whether they pay for a VA hospital or the tax dollar is spent for the state hospital. | be | {
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The responsibility is still going to be there whether they pay for a VA hospital or the tax dollar is spent for the state hospital. | pay | {
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The responsibility is still going to be there whether they pay for a VA hospital or the tax dollar is spent for the state hospital. | spent | {
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An adequate system of VA hospitals is better equipped to care for the veterans than any 50 state hospitals. | is | {
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An adequate system of VA hospitals is better equipped to care for the veterans than any 50 state hospitals. | care | {
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It seems that open season upon veterans ' hospitalization is once more upon us. | seems | {
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It seems that open season upon veterans ' hospitalization is once more upon us. | is | {
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The American Medical Association is once again grinding out its tear-soaked propaganda based upon the high cost of the Veterans Administration medical program to the American taxpayer. | grinding out | {
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The American Medical Association is once again grinding out its tear-soaked propaganda based upon the high cost of the Veterans Administration medical program to the American taxpayer. | based | {
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Do they, the A. M. A., offer any solution other than outright abolition of a medical system unsurpassed anywhere in the world? | offer | {
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We veterans acknowledge the fact that as time passes the demand for medical care at VA hospitals will grow proportionately as age fosters illness. | acknowledge | {
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We veterans acknowledge the fact that as time passes the demand for medical care at VA hospitals will grow proportionately as age fosters illness. | passes | {
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We veterans acknowledge the fact that as time passes the demand for medical care at VA hospitals will grow proportionately as age fosters illness. | grow | {
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We veterans acknowledge the fact that as time passes the demand for medical care at VA hospitals will grow proportionately as age fosters illness. | fosters | {
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Nevertheless, we wonder at the stand of the A. M. A. on the health problem confronting the aged. | wonder | {
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Nevertheless, we wonder at the stand of the A. M. A. on the health problem confronting the aged. | confronting | {
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They opposed the Forand bill, which would have placed the major burden of financial support upon the individual himself through compulsory payroll deduction ; yet they supported the Eisenhower administration which will cost a small state like ours approximately five million dollars ( matched incidentally by a federal g... | opposed | {
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They opposed the Forand bill, which would have placed the major burden of financial support upon the individual himself through compulsory payroll deduction ; yet they supported the Eisenhower administration which will cost a small state like ours approximately five million dollars ( matched incidentally by a federal g... | supported | {
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If THE Dominican Republic achieves free, democratic government, it will be due in large part to the U. S. show of force that enabled President Balaguer to prevent a threatened restoration of Trujillo dictatorship. | achieves | {
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If THE Dominican Republic achieves free, democratic government, it will be due in large part to the U. S. show of force that enabled President Balaguer to prevent a threatened restoration of Trujillo dictatorship. | be due | {
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If THE Dominican Republic achieves free, democratic government, it will be due in large part to the U. S. show of force that enabled President Balaguer to prevent a threatened restoration of Trujillo dictatorship. | enabled | {
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If THE Dominican Republic achieves free, democratic government, it will be due in large part to the U. S. show of force that enabled President Balaguer to prevent a threatened restoration of Trujillo dictatorship. | prevent | {
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Outwardly, Ciudad Trujillo is calm. | is | {
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None of the Trujillo family remains. | remains | {
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Mr. Balaguer is in control, and opposition leaders have no further excuse to suspect his offer of a coalition government preliminary to free elections in the spring. | is | {
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Mr. Balaguer is in control, and opposition leaders have no further excuse to suspect his offer of a coalition government preliminary to free elections in the spring. | have | {
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Had U. S. warships not appeared off the Dominican coast, there is every possibility that the country would now be wracked by civil war. | appeared | {
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Had U. S. warships not appeared off the Dominican coast, there is every possibility that the country would now be wracked by civil war. | wracked | {
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Ultimately either the Trujillos would have been returned to power or the conflict would have produced conditions favorable to a takeover by Dominican elements responsive to Castro in Cuba. | returned | {
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Ultimately either the Trujillos would have been returned to power or the conflict would have produced conditions favorable to a takeover by Dominican elements responsive to Castro in Cuba. | produced | {
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Within the Organization of American States, there may be some criticism of this unilateral American intervention which was not without risk obviously. | be | {
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Within the Organization of American States, there may be some criticism of this unilateral American intervention which was not without risk obviously. | was | {
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But there was no complaint from the Dominican crowds which lined Ciudad Trujillo 's waterfront shouting, `` Vive Yankees ''! | was | {
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But there was no complaint from the Dominican crowds which lined Ciudad Trujillo 's waterfront shouting, `` Vive Yankees ''! | lined | {
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But there was no complaint from the Dominican crowds which lined Ciudad Trujillo 's waterfront shouting, `` Vive Yankees ''! | shouting | {
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More, the U. S. action was hailed by a principal opposition leader, Dr. Juan Bosch, as having saved `` many lives and many troubles in the near future ''. | hailed | {
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More, the U. S. action was hailed by a principal opposition leader, Dr. Juan Bosch, as having saved `` many lives and many troubles in the near future ''. | saved | {
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Mr. Balaguer 's troubles are by no means over. | are | {
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He will need the help of all OAS members to eradicate, finally, the forces of authoritarianism, pro-Trujillo and pro-Castro alike. | need | {
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He will need the help of all OAS members to eradicate, finally, the forces of authoritarianism, pro-Trujillo and pro-Castro alike. | eradicate | {
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In cooperating toward that objective, OAS might move with the speed and effectiveness demonstrated by the United States. | cooperating | {
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In cooperating toward that objective, OAS might move with the speed and effectiveness demonstrated by the United States. | move | {
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In cooperating toward that objective, OAS might move with the speed and effectiveness demonstrated by the United States. | demonstrated | {
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Those watching the growing rivalry between craft unions and industrial unions may recognize all the pressures that led to the big labor split in 1935. | watching | {
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Those watching the growing rivalry between craft unions and industrial unions may recognize all the pressures that led to the big labor split in 1935. | led | {
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Now, as then, it is a matter of jobs. | is | {
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Craft unions seek work that industrial unions claim, such as factory maintenance. | seek | {
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That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. | healed | {
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But automation and the increasing complexity of factories has renewed the competition for jobs. | renewed | {
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Walter Reuther, leader of the industrial union faction of the AFL - CIO, says another two years of this squabbling will be disastrous for all American labor. | says | {
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Walter Reuther, leader of the industrial union faction of the AFL - CIO, says another two years of this squabbling will be disastrous for all American labor. | be | {
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Whether it could be as disastrous for American labor as, say, Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters, is a matter of conjecture. | be | {
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Whether it could be as disastrous for American labor as, say, Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters, is a matter of conjecture. | is | {
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But the jurisdictional disputes that result from the craft-industrial rivalry do not win friends for labor. | result | {
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Engaged as it is in a battle for world trade as a condition of national survival, this country can have little patience with labor 's family feuds. | Engaged | {
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The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive. | is | {
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The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive. | confronting | {
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The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive. | learn | {
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The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive. | put | {
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The Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman 's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism. | question | {
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The Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman 's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism. | is | {
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But the secretary insists that the success of the American farmer is the `` greatest single source of strength '' in the struggle to insure freedom around the world. | insists | {
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But the secretary insists that the success of the American farmer is the `` greatest single source of strength '' in the struggle to insure freedom around the world. | insure | {
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Mr. Freeman said that in many of the countries he visited on a recent world trade trip people were more awed by America 's capacity to produce food surpluses than by our industrial production - or even by the Soviet 's successes in space. | said | {
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Mr. Freeman said that in many of the countries he visited on a recent world trade trip people were more awed by America 's capacity to produce food surpluses than by our industrial production - or even by the Soviet 's successes in space. | visited | {
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Mr. Freeman said that in many of the countries he visited on a recent world trade trip people were more awed by America 's capacity to produce food surpluses than by our industrial production - or even by the Soviet 's successes in space. | produce | {
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This should n't surprise the secretary ; American taxpayers have been impressed by the surpluses for a long, long time. | surprise | {
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This should n't surprise the secretary ; American taxpayers have been impressed by the surpluses for a long, long time. | impressed | {
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In fact, over the years, the American farmer 's capacity to over-produce has cost the taxpayers a large dollar. | over-produce | {
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In fact, over the years, the American farmer 's capacity to over-produce has cost the taxpayers a large dollar. | cost | {
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And thus far, Mr. Freeman has offered very little relief. | offered | {
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The 1961 feed grain program, which the secretary sponsored, has been declared a billion dollar fiasco. | sponsored | {
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In exchange for higher price supports, growers pledged reduction in planted acreage. | pledged | {
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But the farmers outsmarted Washington by shortening the distance between the rows and pouring on the fertilizer. | outsmarted | {
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But the farmers outsmarted Washington by shortening the distance between the rows and pouring on the fertilizer. | shortening | {
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But the farmers outsmarted Washington by shortening the distance between the rows and pouring on the fertilizer. | pouring | {
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The result : $ 1.1 billion added to the deficit in the federal budget. | added | {
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Perhaps, as Mr. Freeman says, American agriculture may stop the Communists, but it is also swindling the American taxpayer. | says | {
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Perhaps, as Mr. Freeman says, American agriculture may stop the Communists, but it is also swindling the American taxpayer. | stop | {
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A Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. Jackson of Washington has been going over the State Department and has reached some predictable conclusions. | headed | {
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A Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. Jackson of Washington has been going over the State Department and has reached some predictable conclusions. | going over | {
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A Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. Jackson of Washington has been going over the State Department and has reached some predictable conclusions. | reached | {
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The department needs a clearer `` sense of direction '' at the top and it needs fewer, but better, people, Sen. Jackson says. | needs | {
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The department needs a clearer `` sense of direction '' at the top and it needs fewer, but better, people, Sen. Jackson says. | needs | {
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