Word: economices
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Candidate Richard Nixon promised last year "to halt the inflationary trend in our fiscal and monetary policies, to check the drift that defeats our purposes and steadily narrows our range of choices." Now that he has begun to move cautiously against the inflation that last month shaved another half-cent...
Poher, by contrast, strove to explain "why an unknown such as myself had the audacity to enter the presidential race" and read on television one of the fan letters he had received urging him to run ("You have brought us reason to be courageous and hopeful"). Poher offered a platform...
This tension comes partly from the changing economic situation of Wales, the decline of labor in coal-mining. Partly, too, change and newness come from the story's being told through the eyes of a small boy, to whom everything is new and personal. But the film's simultaneous fragility...
Getting Out of Hand. In McLaren's view, the great "challenge and opportunity for trustbusters" lies in the area of conglomerate mergers. He charges that his Democratic predecessors, by taking the position that mergers of companies in unrelated businesses were not subject to existing antitrust law, "let the merger...
Undeniably, conglomerate mergers have dramatically accelerated the concentration of U.S. industrial power (see Corporations). Yet McLaren's view of them is disputed by many experts on legal grounds, and his ideas stumble on some basic contradictions. While he does not necessarily believe that "bigness is badness," he insists that...