Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voluntary compliance, and no one pretends they can end inflation. The rise in the bank rate from 5% to 7% has helped to keep capital inside Britain, but has also inhibited investment. And the program of increased government spending, designed to stimulate the economy, must be followed by broader measures...
While the New York Stock Exchange continues to show gains, a much broader but less-known market is rising even faster. Last week the National Quotation Board's index of over-the-counter stocks closed at a record 192.37, up 8% for the year so far, v. a 3½% rise for the Dow-Jones. Last year the OTC index jumped 23%; the Dow-Jones advanced...
...Segmented grades" aggravate the pressure which Forster hopes the proposed system would ease. "It's much better to strive for honors than to try to go from a C plus to a B minus," he noted. An honor grade would be broader than the present...
...broader sense the blame lies with all of us. We have seen minds which would throw out a ballot, and we have permitted them to live. We have taken the worst from among us, and systematically elevated them to the HCUA. We have seen the office of class marshal reduced to a scrap of carrion for which jackals fight...
...HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, by John O'Hara. The fourth recent collection of this prolific writer's low-keyed chronicles, but not just more of the same. O'Hara's imagination is even livelier, his psychology broader, and the feeling implicit in a story such as Some Days I Get Such a Longing reaches an intensity that he has rarely equaled since Appointment in Samarra...