Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shifted into high gear by a combination of concurring factors: a buying splurge by the U.S. public, a more favorable presidential attitude toward business, the use of traditional but effective tools by Government, and the increasing willingness of industry's decision makers to spend, lend, build, modernize and expand. These factors came together at a time when the American people and Government realized that the economy was not living up to its potential-and needed a push to get it moving. Once all pushed together, the economy willingly took...
...Though he never once mentioned the word Negro, Kennedy clearly was aiming his message at the Wallaces of the South. "This nation," he said, "is now engaged in a continuing debate about the rights of a portion of its citizens. That debate will go on, and those rights will expand, until the standard first forged by the nation's founders has been reached- and all Americans enjoy equal opportunity and liberty under law. But this nation was not founded solely on the principle of citizens' rights. Equally important-though too infrequently discussed-is the citizen's responsibility...
This new U.S. zeal for an ancient art stems mostly from the impression made on President Kennedy by Nikita Khrushchev's flat declaration that Communism will seek to expand through nasty little undeclared "wars of national liberation." Explains Defense Secretary Robert McNamara: "These wars are often not wars at all. In these conflicts, the force of world Communism operates in the twilight zone between political subversion and quasi-military action. Their military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush and the raid. Their political tactics are terror, extortion and assassination. We must help the people of threatened nations...
...plight is a sign of the times in Latin America. In these nationalistic days, governments find it politically impossible to grant rate increases to foreign-owned utility companies. Since 1954, the Light has only been allowed to raise rates enough to meet increased wages, but not enough to expand facilities or service. At 2/7? (U.S.) per kwh, "our power is the cheapest in the world," says a company official. "Our rates are so low they do not even cover distribution of our power to new clients." As service sags, clients complain. The complaints turn into demands for nationalization by politicians...
This outline took form in Chandigarh in the early 1950s, which the Indian government commissioned Le Corbusier to design as a state capital replacing Lahore which India lost to Pakistan in the division of the Punjab in 1947. The new city already has 150,000 residents, and will expand later to a half million...