Word: condi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first job was to help the Negro migrants who were just beginning to pour from the fields of the South into the big cities of the North. Starting with a budget of $8,500, it provided travelers' aid, trained Negro social workers, conducted studies of social and economic condi tions among Negroes in the cities...
...when the angling parlors mushroomed from a few score to a present-day 539 in the heart of the city. One parlor was installed in a former bar with the pool behind the counter and the bar stools used as perches for fishermen. Saburo Kamekura, manager of an air-condi tioned establishment on the Ginza, To kyo's Fifth Avenue, claims 1,000 cus tomers a day. There, pretty young girls in Bermuda shorts cry "Sugoi! [terrif ic!]" when customers land a big one. Kamekura boasts that he is performing a badly needed service: "When it comes to doing...
...most sweeping investigation of the stock market in 25 years, and Wall Street was plainly apprehensive. Despite all the evidence of better business condi tions, the market had been stalled for nine weeks (though at a comfortably high level), and many put down its sluggishness to fear of a tough report from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Last week, as the first third of the highly secret document came out in five volumes and 1,600 pages, weighing 12 pounds, Wall Street's professionals were relieved by its surface mildness...
...happened, Gordon had all sorts of glowing words to say about the New Frontier's tax program. But the sentiments at issue came while he was under close questioning from dubious members of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. He insisted that "under current condi tions," with the economy sluggish, attempts to balance the budget would be "self-defeating." Reduced federal expenditures would "reduce private production, employment, profits and wages. This, in turn, would lead to lower federal revenue collections, and a deficit would remain...