Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saved under the federal accounting system, the measure would have the effect of reducing the Government's deficit by $4.7 billion in the coming fiscal year. Despite Ford's criticism, few Congressmen, even those unsympathetic to the Administration, would be likely to accept the alternatives, a tax boost or a sharp reduction in domestic spending, or even offer spirited opposition to a scheme that their constituents could hardly understand. The House Banking Committee found it reasonable enough, approved the bill by a vote of 22 to 3 less than 24 hours after it was submitted...
...just slightly more than the quarterly average for the past two years (see chart). A major reason for the rise was that defense spending jumped by $3 billion, or about 20% more than had been anticipated. Federal economists also had hoped that the $6 billion social security tax boost, which went into effect on Jan. 1, would cut consumer spending. Instead, such spending surged by an annual rate of $11.6 billion, up from $8.5 billion in the fourth quarter of last year. The greatest increases were in clothes and food, partly because of higher prices, but heavy buying of cars...
...golf team emerged from hibernation yesterday to clout Brandeis, 7-0, and Holy Cross, 4-3, and to boost its record to 6-4. Before yesterday Harvard had lost three of its last four matches...
...that way at Juilliard," he replies gently: "I know you're right artistically, but, unfortunately, this is the way it will sell." He may suggest a less complicated "story line," or a different twist to the melody, or a switch in rhythm. He also knows how to boost a youngster's ego. Composer Tommy Boyce, 22, and Lyricist Bobby Hart, 23, came in from Hollywood last week, played Donnie a new ballad called Sunday, the Day Before Monday...
...which underwrite the loans on 16% of the nation's new homes, fiddled while rates flared. When FHA hiked its rate from 5¼ to 5½% in February, the Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisers overruled the agency's plea to boost the rate to 5¾% at once. While the second boost was debated, the price of mortgage money shot up past 6% in the FHA market. Many institutions that ordinarily make FHA loans allocated funds elsewhere. Worst of all, the Federal National Mortgage Association cut its upper limit on loans from...