Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claiming credit for achievements, President Johnson describes both his regime and that of his predecessor as "this Administration." So do Republicans in assessing blame...
Grabbing the Credit. That put the U.S. in an odd corner. Ever since Troi's conviction, the U.S. embassy in Saigon has been quietly pressuring for his reprieve on the grounds that executing a fumbling 17-year-old kid would do no one any good. Premier Nguyen Khanh was warming to the idea, and Saigon newspapers reported a reprieve in the works weeks ago. As the State Department and the Pentagon size it up, the Venezuelan F.A.L.N. knew that, figured by kidnaping a U.S. hostage it could grab credit for something that was due to happen anyway...
...their inventories at a rapid pace, they have historically helped bring on inflation, which the Government then seeks to curb by boosting interest rates and slowing down the economy. The current economic expansion has been long-lived and steady precisely because inventories have stayed lean, prices stable and credit free and easy. Last week, however, there were rumblings, rumors and signs of concern on all three fronts...
Partly as a result of corporate hedging against inflation, backlogs of unfilled orders have jumped smartly in the metals industries. Inventories of steel are running close to 20% higher than a year ago because users in the auto, appliances and can industries are converting their plentiful cash and credit into stockpiles as a defense against price rises or the possibility of a steel strike next May. The overworked steelmakers have stretched out many delivery times to four months and have pushed production to a two-year high of 81% of capacity-and would be producing even more were...
...actions have been as admirable. The wire tapping bill he supported (and to his credit later repudiated) conflicted sharply with his strong support of civil liberties. Often he performed his role of Administration hatchet man with an excess of energy--particularly in his treatment of the executives responsible for the steel price rise and in his relentless, seemingly ruthless, drive to convict James Hoffa. But the assassination coupled with a period of introspection have left him more subdued...