Word: barres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Question of Price. Washington seems delighted with the slight autumn chill. "The trend," insisted Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr, "is definitely toward a rate of growth which the economy can sustain." Added Chief Presidential Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley: "The economy today is pretty much what I like...
...eleventh consecutive week, the New York Stock Exchange opened with a Monday tinted blue: the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 13.53 points to 767.03, its lowest level since Jan. 2, 1964. Next day, Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr told a House committee that the Government "can't rely on monetary policy much more," must boost taxes or cut spending "if we have to do more" to curb the exuberant U.S. economy...
Apparently taking Barr's comment as an indication that the Johnson Administration may take decisive action in the economic field, the market bounded up smartly. The Dow-Jones average gained 8.69 points Tuesday, 12.69 points Wednesday and 3.68 points Thursday for the longest rally in a month. Blue-chip industrial stocks, among the biggest losers in the market's seven-month slump, led the comeback. Some of the long-missing investment demand came from institutions that have been sitting on the sidelines...
...Center worked on the redistricting alternatives for four months. James Q. Wilson, director of the Joint Center and associate professor of Government, declined to estimate the cost of the project, financed entirely with the Joint Center's own funds. Staff member MacDonald Barr worked on the project full time, 12 hours a day, and there were usually five or six other researchers assisting...
...Dean of Students and then Dean of Harvard College, Leighton help a plan the present Allston Barr Senior Tutor system. Through the Senior Tutor system the Houses began to take a more active part in developing relationships between faculty and students...