Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business, agreed to hire Negro checkers. But Negro civil rights leaders planned one more demonstration--a march on the courthouse to protest city inaction in other areas, such as hiring Negro policemen. Leaflets calling for the late-March demonstration also recommended a "period of self-denial"--Negroes would not buy new clothes for Easter "to call attention to the need for renewing our commitment to justice...
...effective organizers in Watts, though they may agree with "black power" as a necessary approach to the problem, disagree with the black nationalist version. On the one hand, there are those who would rather see assimilation than separation. As one young administrator at Westminister said, "Sure I buy black dignity and black power. But there's a world out there much bigger than Watts--and I've never been called...
...chocolate companies in the U.S. and Holland, Grace so far this year has picked up Nalley's, Inc., a snack-food producer in Tacoma, Wash., with annual sales of about $45 million, and Marela, Ltd., a pickle firm in Britain. Before the end of 1966, Grace hopes to buy out Sea-Pak Corp. of St. Simons Island. Ga., a $25 million-a-year frozen-seafood company...
...fascinated with the possibility of filling in the gaps in his stereo-tape library with his own recordings, and when he learned that a symphony musician could be hired for $50.40 per day in Britain (v. $123.20 in the U.S.), he figured that it was a good buy. After all, there are psychiatric patients who pay that much just for one session on a couch, and for that they don't even get Muzak...
Jean Baptiste Say, an early 19th century French economist, contended that economies were destined to function smoothly, and that slumps or excesses would be self-correcting because the production of goods created exactly the amount of income needed to buy those goods and to invest in facilities to produce more of the same. Despite persistent unsettling booms and busts, economists accepted that notion as gospel for more than 100 years-until Keynes smashed it by explaining that, in the absence of government action, demand can fluctuate sharply since not all wages are spent and not all savings are invested...