passage
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By January 1964, less than two months after his assassination, the program included 380,000 participants scattered across 22 states, becoming permanent later that year with the passage of the Food Stamp Act.
From Salon
They were tasked with “dismantling and disabling” Venezuela’s air-defense systems, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine told reporters Saturday, “to ensure the safe passage of the helicopters into the target area.”
Those conflagrations inspired the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Water Act.
If Buffett were updating that passage today, his list would change, but the conclusion would not.
From MarketWatch
If Buffett were updating that passage today, his list would change, but the conclusion would not.
From MarketWatch
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