Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business slowdown to the danger point. But Johnson also asked for an average 20% rise in Social Security benefits. It was an unexpectedly large increase that will pump some $4.1 billion into the economy and may in fact bring enough new money into the market place to offset the drain of new taxes. Politically, a fresh rush of taxes into the Treasury should give Johnson some maneuvering room with the 90th Congress when it comes time to debate Great Society spending...
Still Pressuring. By cashing in its dollars for bullion at a $54-million-a-month rate, France has aggravated the U.S. gold drain, weakened confidence in paper currency in general, and touched off a worldwide wave of speculation in gold. The resulting gold scarcity has left the free world's official monetary reserves-for the most part bullion and dollars-annoyingly tight. Last week the International Monetary Fund reported that worldwide reserves increased by a scant $460 million during the first nine months...
...Eeeeeeeeeek!" the teller screams, and moments later the bank guards converge on the ladies room with revolvers drawn. The door bursts open, and out bolts a chic chick who looks as though the Loch Ness monster had just popped out of the drain...
...suffering is a rupture (Latin: hernia) or break in the muscular abdominal wallIn the President's case, the break came about an inch to the right of the scar where the surgeons cut last year to remove his gall bladder. It is at the point where plastic drain tubes were left in place for four days after that operation. Such hernias are by no means rare but no one knows exactly how common they...
...like the President is likely to have relatively weak belly muscles, and L.B.J.'s have been further weakened by his weight gain of almost 20 Ibs. in the past year. The intestines and other internal organs, exerting pressure against the muscle wall, found a weak spot at the drain site and forced an opening. A piece of intestine (it may be either the large or small bow el) has pushed through. Finger-tip size in April, it is now as big as a golf ball...