Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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All in all, second-quarter profits were an estimated 30% or so over the same period last year. That is far below the 49.8% increase in the January-March period, but the comparison is somewhat distorted: first-quarter earnings in 1975 were well below those of the succeeding quarters. Actually...
Other changes in federal aid are more certain, including widening of eligibility for Guaranteed Students Loans and Basic Education Opportunity Grants, more attempts to reach middle income groups through expansion of two existing programs, and expansion of direct grants and laons.
In 1904 there were 160 medical schools with 28,142 students and 5,747 graduates annually. Abraham Flexner, an educator, not a physician, was commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to study the situation. He recommended the closing or reorganization of all substandard proprietary schools. By...
Though many of the recent impediments to vigorous industrial expansion -heavy corporate debt, tight money markets, huge surplus capacity-are now fading, the extent of increases in business spending this year is still uncertain. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, believes that business spending has lagged -largely...
Even so, the U.S.-West German viewpoint prevailed. The final communique stated: "Our objective now is to manage effectively a transition to expansion which will be sustainable, which will reduce the high level of unemployment which persists in many countries and will not jeopardize our common aim of avoiding a...