Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Giscard took to TV again to unveil the newest addition to his anti-inflation arsenal: for the first time in 34 years, France will have a balanced budget in 1965. Moreover, he reported, the stabilization plan had cut the consumer-price-index increase in one year to 2.9% v. the 4.9% rise the year before without any appreciable brake on the economy's overall growth. In the new budget, government credits for badly needed superhighways will increase by 26%, investment in France's antiquated telephone system will go up 11.5% and minimum old-age pensions will...
...Various Democratic officials at the convention repeatedly stressed the great necessity of keeping control of the awesome American nuclear arsenal in the hands of the President. With this proposition I fully agree, unless, of course, the "temporary Republican spokesman" is elected President, in which case I would feel much safer with the control of our nuclear weapons in the hands of our military field commanders...
Onto the polished, horseshoe-shaped table of the U.N. Security Council plopped a miniature arsenal-an automatic rifle and a light mortar, a helmet, a back pack, an opened parachute, a camouflage suit. Thus last week did British-backed Malaysia, after more than a year of harassment by Indonesia, launch a dramatic appeal...
Both the capability and the control of the U.S. nuclear arsenal were on the way to becoming major issues in the presidential campaign. Last week Barry Goldwater launched a verbal missile on each subject and drew a massive retaliation from the Johnson Administration...
...mass of suggestions from citizens about how to predict the course of the economy: by aspirin sales, race-track betting, blue print production, employment of temporary office help. Some of the suggestions actually make sense, but they are like so many popguns in the economic forecaster's arsenal. The nation's economists, for roughly the same reason as the U.S. Air Force, have developed their own DEW-line warning system to spot trouble on the horizon...