Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are still misty memories from the Kennedy days of Walter Heller, a kind of economic Ichabod, loping happily through the corridors of the White House advocating the New Economics, a system that eventually yielded this nation the longest continued economic expansion (105 months) in our history.
Died. Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 91, Prime Minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957 and a symbol of national pride and achievement; in Quebec. A man of patrician and benevolent manner who was often referred to as "Uncle Louis" by his countrymen, St. Laurent reluctantly left a successful Quebec law...
"I am sure there was more real growth in the second quarter than was reported," he told TIME Correspondent John Berry. "I don't see any indication of a recession. We are not having the big expansion in inventories that usually precedes a recession."
Since libraries and museums are the major educational resources available to those who cannot attend lectures, programs could be developed to permit autodidactic pursuit of new intellectual interests. Reading lists, tapings of General Education lectures are some of the methods readily available for an expansion of the present offerings of...
> For the first time, the German government will be forced to deal with a problem that is familiar in the U.S.-special "structural" unemployment in a time of economic expansion. Explains Economist Kernig: "Germany will soon see more Germans seeking work, while more immigrant workers have jobs."