Word: discernible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Kennedy's request last week for $3.45 billion in additional defense spending brought the nation closer to a war economy than at any time since Korea. Already Washington policymakers and the nation's businessmen thought they could discern the probable broad effects of the Kennedy program. Their estimates...
...question of the size of the College first came up in 1954-55 when educators began to discern the impact that booming population might have on the colleges. Many Harvard men were troubled about the higher institutions' lack of preparation for the flood of applications. They felt that Harvard had to respond strongly to the danger, so alerting the rest of the country to it and at the same time handling a small part of it. If we raise the numbers admitted here, they said, we make our contribution. And so it followed that the President spoke of bringing...
There is an obvious reciprocity between public opinion and the decisions of its leaders. Before an official decides, he attempts to discern what the public wants; once a decision has been made, the climate of public opinion undergoes a subtle change...
...election-eve denunciation of Kennedy as "soft on Communism" by rabidly right-wing Governor Wesley Powell was denounced by Kennedy and sharply repudiated by Nixon. Its possible effects on the election were hard to discern. Some analysts claimed that the unprecedented turnout at the polls was a result; others saw the 2,196 Republican write-in votes for Kennedy as a protest against Powell. Nixon aides interpreted the Vice President's quick repudiation of Powell's reckless charge as a big help in dissociating their candidate from the right wing of the Republican Party. But when the results...
...busy as alchemists in their laboratories, U.S. economists last week gazed upon the bubbling statistics of U.S. business, tried to discern exactly what they meant. Before the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, four top economists forecast that business activity in 1960 will certainly meet-and perhaps exceed-the rosy predictions made in the President's Economic Report. George Cline Smith, chief economist of F. W. Dodge Corp., and Peter Henle, assistant research director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., agreed that Ike's forecasts of a national output of $510 billion in 1960 is right on the line. Martin R. Gainsbrugh...