Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world figure for a decade.) Carter has never served in any capital larger than Atlanta: four years in the Georgia Senate, four years as Governor of the nation's 14th largest state. The questions about him, however, go much deeper than what he has done or not done: they focus on what kind of man he really is. It is no longer "Jimmy who?" but "Jimmy what...
...this special focus on steel justified? Since the Truman and Kennedy presidencies, steel's importance to the economy and its impact on the overall price structure have been shrinking. The metal has lost a large share of its markets to other materials-aluminum in beer cans and some auto bumpers, and plastics for many refrigerator parts, for example. Between 1950 and 1975, total industrial production rose 260%, steel output only 120% (see chart). Services have grown vastly in importance in the modern economy; an increase in auto-insurance rates can push up the cost of owning a car much...
...They dispatched Reporters George Reasons and Mike Goodman to the city six months ago, they claim, solely to investigate a rash of municipal scandals and fiscal problems. "The situation we found was a surprise to all of us," says Times Editor William Thomas. "But [the paper] was a natural focus, so we wrote it that way. I can say that I have never seen a story quite like this...
...reducing the unemployment rate by a point and a half next year would require the creation of 4.2 million new jobs-probably an impossibility. Some members of the Board of Economists worry that, in grappling with this and other economic problems, Carter and his advisers will focus too much attention on 1977, too little on what follows. A stimulus of any kind takes time to filter through the economy and become effective. The job, says Otto Eckstein, is not to pump up the 1977 figures as much as possible but "to create an underpinning for business and households...
...most interesting cases focus on the vast estate he left behind, estimated as high as $2.3 billion. Hughes left no authenticated will?or at least none so far has been found. Although 30 or so purported wills have surfaced, most have been immediately dismissed as fakes or humorous hoaxes...