Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With a strong surge, the stock market last week reached an alltime peak. The Dow-Jones industrial average jumped to 694.11, passing the previous record of 685.47 on Jan. 5, 1960. The rise of the industrials signaled the increasing strength of the market. Though broader-based market indexes had reached alltime peaks weeks ago, the industrial index, heavily weighted by capital goods stocks, had lagged a step behind the exuberant pace set by consumer goods and electronics. Now industrials-the classic measure of the market's strength-were beginning to catch...
...great theorist abstractly, and to capitalize on the jargon which has grown up around him, has proved fatal to many critics. Any thoughtful discussion of Brecht must actually concern itself with the practicing playwright, and I will attempt to discuss The Caucasian Chalk Circle in relation to Brecht's broader accomplishment. This play enjoyed a successful run at the University last fall, and in the volume under discussion, represents to Bentley a peak of the author's accomplishment...
...floor of another strong upsurge. The institutions, many of which are only 75% invested, have sharply stepped up their stock buying; life insurance companies doubled their purchases in December. Actually, the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial stocks does not completely show the extent of the current rise. The broader based Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks last week reached an alltime high...
...wish I could say that a lasting peace is in sight." He also issued a warning to the nation. The U.S., he said, must resist the temptation to meet each new crisis with "spectacular and costly action." Instead, "each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs-balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped-for advantage . . . balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future...
...tung would attach to any cooperation would demand that Taiwan become a part of Red China . . . We obviously are not going to give up Formosa." On Formosa itself: "We are going to defend Formosa, whatever the cost, whatever the risk." But Bowles did enter a plea for a "broader" U.S. policy toward China that would consider "what will happen to the whole powerful [Communist China] force over the years ... Is there a relaxation of this force, or does it explode? . . . It's not only a problem of trying to contain China. You have the problem...