Word: eleven
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...seminar in Detroit, Columbia's Dr. Arthur F. Burns, who was Dwight Eisenhower's top economic adviser, complained that the Government is making "excessive use of monetary weapons and insufficient use of fiscal tools," called for a "modest" tax hike "to cool down the economy." Of eleven experts who testified before a subcommittee of the Senate-House Joint Economic Committee, three urged a cutback in Government spending and eight favored increased taxes, but all wanted some form of fiscal restraint to avert inflation. "Without an increase soon," said Yale's conservative Henry C. Wallich, "we will...
...seem far less ready to defer gratification. Protracted courtship or drawn-out seduction never seems to have appealed to the American male, for whom Stendhal's celebrated ten-year wait to achieve success with the wife of a Milan shopkeeper ("On Sept. 21 at half-past eleven," the novelist noted in his journal, "I won the victory I had so long desired") might appear something of a waste of time. American lovers are usually accused not only of wanting to win but of not exploiting their victories patiently enough-perhaps in part misguided by Kinsey, who equated rapid-fire...
...course there are many qualifications on this forecast. Even if the election were held today, it is by no means clear that the Labour majority would be so great. Labour has led in the national polls throughout its 17 months in office, but in seven of eleven by-elections there has been a net-swing to the Conservatives. Moreover, the average shift in local council by-elections suggest that the Conservatives have kept pace with Labour...
Further Testing. Test groups were too small for the doctors to draw any certain conclusions, but Jaffe and Brill report encouraging results. In the first issue of The International Journal of the Addictions, they say that of eleven male volunteers, only one so far did not work out; he decided to try methadone, a heroin replacement that also impedes highs but is itself addictive (TIME, Sept. 3). Among the other ten, preliminary results show varying signs of success. Most have reported a lessening of narcotic craving and say that they have tried large doses of their old drug once...
Experienced New York fencers dominated the Easterns this weekend as Harvard closed out the season in a blaze of mediocrity, finishing eighth in the eleven-team tournament...