Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shift of Emphasis. An apt example is the law-and-order field. There, the President-elect may work with the Omnibus Crime Control Act, passed by the 90th Congress, to expand federal aid to local law enforcement authorities. Under the Act, Nixon's Attorney General may sanction the use of wiretapping in certain cases-authority that the Johnson Administration declined to use. Nixon may also double the size of the Justice Department's organized crime section, raise it to the status of a separate division within the agency and elevate its chief to the rank of Assistant Attorney...
...continuing inflation-portends trouble in the U.S. securities markets. Bond dealers are afraid that even the high yields on fixed-interest securities are too low, relative to the rate of inflation. These dealers figure that they may have a tough time floating the issues that industry needs to expand and modernize. With somewhat less justification, stockbrokers worry that investors will switch out of stocks and into bonds because the difference in yields is so enormous. This month, the average yield on Triple-A corporate bonds climbed to 6.47%, while the average dividend paid by the 500 stocks in the Standard...
...Lunar Caustic, Lowry uses his secondary characters effectively to expand upon and control the main autobiographical figure, William Plantagenet, a young Englishman and a drunk, who is committed temporarily to Bellevue Hospital in New York. In the central conversation between Plantagenet and the Doctor, Lowry plays the Doctor's practical, mindlessly psychologistic comments against Plantagenet's solipsism. At the same time, however, the Doctor's words serve as a kind of objective warning against the distortions implicit in Lowry's habit of creating only autobiographical characters...
Brotherhood would spawn the crisis for the Negro politician. As the races slowly mixed, the politicians' positions would disintegrate. There would be less need for black leaders as such; the roles would largely disappear, or at least, evolve. Could the Negro politician adapt to the change, and expand his base of power...
Additionally, his ideas on black politics were apparently wrong. Some black politicians, at least, have been able to expand their power bases not only in spite of the isolation of their race, but also because of it. As the "black community" has solidified, its leaders can take its unprecedented voting strength more and more for granted...