Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate budget, which would boost federal spending by 10.1 per cent over the current fiscal year, contains a three-per-cent defense spending increase. The budget also calls for five-per-cent nonbinding increases in defense spending in fiscal...
...inflation. This is indeed a counter-Keynesian conclusion since it associates a huge increase in fiscal stimulus with a reduction in inflation. The challenge to this school of supply economics is to show empirically that the supply response created by a massive tax cut would be greater than the boost in demand. Otherwise, Kemp-Roth is just another recipe for inflation...
Over the next year or two, the recession will shift attention back on demand. When will real disposable income turn up to reverse the shrinkage in the circular flow of production, income and spending? When will spending attitudes improve to give a little extra boost to retail sales? But this period of demand dominance will be short-lived. If growth were to return to the normal 3 to 4 per cent range, the economy would be running out of energy supplies and industrial capacity as early as 1982 and the stage would be set for another supply-induced recession...
...also been stymied in banning another substance given to animals to boost growth: the hormone DES (diethylstilbesterol), which is known to cause cancer in humans...
...shortage is sure to increase pressure on companies to boost secretarial wages, even though many managers argue that they are already offering ample pay for the applicants they are now getting. ASI Personnel Service, a Chicago recruiting firm, receives 30 to 40 calls a day from employers willing to pay $800 to $900 a month for experienced secretaries. However, ASI-listed candidates with the required skills are demanding $900 to $1,300 a month. In fast-growing corporate centers like Houston, top-level executive secretaries now command up to $30,000 a year...