Sentences with phrase «government at a stroke»

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Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Because while jobs and growth are vital to getting the deficit down — something this government has never understood — they can not magic the whole deficit away at a stroke.

Mayor Koch's personal secretary and his first deputy mayor will spend most of their time at Gracie Mansion this week as the seat of city government shifts several miles uptown during Mr. Koch's recuperation from a minor stroke.

Adding mechanical clot removal to clot - busting drugs could lower stroke survivors medical bills, decrease government healthcare as well as non-healthcare related costs, and increase the likelihood of the patient returning to work and participating in society, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conferencestroke survivors medical bills, decrease government healthcare as well as non-healthcare related costs, and increase the likelihood of the patient returning to work and participating in society, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke ConferenceStroke Association's International Stroke ConferenceStroke Conference 2016.

A landmark Spanish government sponsored study (PREDIMED) revealed that middle aged men and women who consumed a Mediterranean diet supplemented with at least four tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil daily had a 30 per cent relative risk reduction in suffering a heart attack, stroke or death within five years in comparison to those advised to follow a «low fat» diet.

The only «benefit» I can see is for those within the department to demonstrate the worthiness of their continued funding at or around the current level, even though almost half that department could be removed with the stroke of a pen if a few eligibility rules for benefits were loosened for the few remaining veterans who have a few years only before meeting their maker - essentially bucket loads of money could be saved that are being expended employing teams of people for millions of dollars, to literally save mere thousands of dollars on veterans entitlements - «penny wise and pound foolish» = > it is actually quite bizarre, and I'm sure it is just one of the most blatant examples of the organised stupidity that is government today.