Word: charting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even less. After a seven-month decline, manufacturers' inventories rose about $100 million in April-a sign that inventories now react more quickly than before to changes in the economic climate. In past recessions, an upturn in manufacturers' inventories has usually lagged five or more months (see chart) behind an upturn in industrial production; this time the lag was only a month...
...pointed up the fact that personal income has become "the hero of recessions," tending to hold up the economy in times of stress when other indicators are falling. During three previous postwar recessions, personal income dipped substantially less, both absolutely and in percentages, than the gross national product (see chart). In the recession just over, it fell less than half as much as G.N.P...
...Surge. Some strong and disturbing trends are visible. The number of Americans who have been out of work for more than 15 weeks has grown faster than unemployment as a whole (see chart), and reached a postwar high of 2,128,000 in April. The number of people unemployed for at least half a year is rapidly approaching the August 1958 postwar high...
...doubt that adultery would be even more popular than it is but for the fact that it involves a more exacting set of rules than marriage itself. Oxford Philosophy Don Iris Murdoch has written a novel about adultery so complex and involuted as to suggest an anthropologist's chart of the mating patterns of a tribe at once polygamous and polyandrous. Among the wholly amoral cast of characters: Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an elegant but asthmatic London wine merchant, who is also the novel's narrator; his blonde wife Antonia; his black-haired mistress, Georgie; their joint analyst, Anderson...
Mullin will hook up with Bobby Mack of Yale in a repeat of last week's epic mile battle, which resulted in a 4:07.1 victory for the Crimson junior. Varsity coach Bill McCurdy could juggle the form chart by sending Mullin back into the 880 against Carroll. Mullin just might outrace the sore-legged Bulldog...