Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surpluses is through increased commercial sales abroad. Of the $6.2 billion worth of farm products that the U.S. sent abroad last year, $4.6 million was through normal export channels. The future of U.S. sales to Common Market countries ($1.4 billion in 1964) is threatened by the community's drift toward protective tariffs. But Europe is not the whole world; as other nations improve their diets and elevate their tastes, they may open huge new markets for U.S. farm products. Even so, they could absorb only a fraction of the 5 to 10% year-in, year-out overproduction...
...spoke grandly of attacking the "imperialists" with a "Djakarta-Pnompenh-Hanoi, Peking-Pyongyang axis," which sounds like an airline route but is nothing more than a dream that he has often toyed with in the past. The speech confirmed continuance of Sukarno's far leftward drift. With Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi sitting near by as an honored guest, Sukarno predictably ripped into the U.S., pledged "active support" to the Viet Cong guerrillas in South Viet Nam and threatened to nationalize U.S. oil and rubber interests that are already undergovernment control. U.S. Ambassador Marshall Green heard...
...project, begun by Louis A. Toepfer, vice dean of the Law School, was designed to interest promising young Negroes who often drift into "teaching and preaching" in law as a career...
Most important, the personal income of the average American continues to rise three times as fast as the cost of living. Said the Chase Manhattan Bank's bimonthly newsletter last week: "While price indexes may drift up gradually, as they have in the past seven years, the real prices people and business have to pay have not increased on the average. And this means that there has been no real price inflation...
...crosswind is causing the plane to drift sideways, the pilot may have to swing the rear antenna to right or left before it picks up the proper pattern of ground radiation. In that case, the amount of antenna swing is also fed into the computer, which then cranks the drift angle into its computations. Working with direction, ground speed, drift angle and flight time from a known point of departure, the pilot's computer becomes an accurate navigator...