Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be put up by half a dozen sources, from the Agency for International Development (AID) to the U.S. Treasury. The Brazilians will use it to reduce next year's enormous $475 million budget deficit, to provide credits for farmers and businessmen, and for a host of seriously needed development projects (the A.F.L.-C.I.O. is making a $23 million loan for workers' housing). To make sure the funds go where they should, Brazil has agreed to a regular review of progress, faces a cutoff in the flow of funds if performance is not good. "This is a calculated...
...hard news fed the fire. Britain's government revealed that the trade deficit widened by another $288 million in November. The price of gold was pushed so high by the uncertainty-to the highest level since the Cuban missile crisis-that the Bank of England rushed to support both the securities market and the pound sterling. In a desperate effort to help alleviate its economic problems, Britain announced that it had taken advantage of a 1957 agreement and arranged a postponement of $138.1 million in repayments due the U.S. and $34.3 million due Canada on British reconstruction loans...
...commuter! You should run a story pointing out the woes of us taxpaying, straphanging, deficit-burdened, tail-crushed 8-to-6 slobs...
...Harvard hasn't thrown in the towel yet. Last year at this time the powerful Crimson travelled to Providence expecting an easy win to mark the beginning of the road to the Ivy crown. Instead, Brown overcame a 2-0 deficit late in the third quarter, and pulled out a 3-2 overtime...
...inflation-plagued economies of postwar Germany and Japan, he became one of the chief architects of their phenomenal booms by counseling devalued currency and balanced budgets. Then as Eisenhower's budget director through 1954, Dodge performed deft surgery on the U.S. budget, whittling almost $7 billion from the deficit left by Truman and making possible the $1.6 billion surplus...