Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changing environment. The guidance system faltered in election year 1966, causing that rare paradox, inflation at a time of some business slow- down. Some of the problems have changed, but they remain serious enough in 1967 to pose the question: Can the nation sustain a seventh consecutive year of expanding prosperity? In his Economic Report and Budget Message to Congress last week, President Johnson answered with a qualified yes. He said the U.S. could curb inflation, avoid recession, ease the painful money pinch, and still expand economically. This could be done, moreover, while the U.S. continued to prosecute...
...should seek to expand the categories of exemption until they include everyone. We adovcate a broadening of the grounds for conscientious objection, the extension of alternate service, and the exemption of young workers in apprenticeship programs, as means of diminishing available draft material and expanding the base of the anti-draft movement. We must recognize elitist procedures, however, in the selection of Peace Corps and Vista trainees, and exclusionary practices in apprenticeship recruitment as we recognize class discrimination involved in the 2-S deferment. Real alternative service should include "community people," working in their own neighborhoods, without being able...
Blitz Trips. Rhodes, 57, who won office in 1962 by pledging to put the budget in shape, levy no new taxes, and expand employment, is a man obsessed with what jobs mean. As he sees it, unemployment is the root of most social ills and thus is the paramount political issue. Last fall, running for a second four-year term, the Governor plastered the state with two-word stickers: "Rhodes-Jobs." This week, when he is sworn in after a smashing re-election win, he can point to a remarkable record. During his tenure Ohio has added 330,000 jobs...
...investment, Rhodes took the political risk of sharply paring state expenditures, has kept Ohio one of only ten states with neither a statewide corporate nor a personal income tax. Constantly on the phone to out-of-state executives, the Governor has also worked to get existing Ohio companies to expand, attended 800 "industry appreciation" dinners in all parts of the state. Unlike most governors, Rhodes did not complain when the Federal Government closed local installations, instead welcomed the challenge of getting private industry to take over abandoned sites...
Rich (assets: $1.5 billion), acquisition-minded BAT is no stranger at the dressing table, having acquired 65% control of another cosmetics company, Lenthéric Ltd., in 1965. Two weeks ago BAT made a generous $67 million cash offer to take over Yardley and promised to expand the company "on an international basis, while keeping its management team...