Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partly the result of an inexorable trend that first revealed itself in the indecisive 1957 election, partly a stunning personal triumph for Diefenbaker. Barely nine months in office with a scant plurality government, he had stepped up Canada's already generous social welfare benefits, provided new government assistance for hard-pressed prairie farmers, injected fresh government funds to spur housing construction. A few days after taking office, he called on his fellow Canadians to do more of their buying in Britain, less in the U.S., and by year's end some shift appeared to be taking place. Beyond...
...replace the broken stability of the group." Adds a Brooklyn junior high school assistant principal: "The kids reflect the adults and the world they live in." Says another school official: "We try to make them act the way we don't. We try to teach them to be generous, to believe in the sacredness of human life, to respect the rights of others. But the kids have eyes...
...within the gigantic Stone showcase have already raised the cry of scandal from art critics who object to showing American primitives and North American Indian art plus younger U.S. painters to art-sophisticated Europeans. But U.S. fair officials are hoping that a mixture of candor, humor, friendliness and a generous display of such technological gadgetry as closed-circuit TV, a quizmaster IBM machine, and fashion shows, will win friends for the U.S. To do this the U.S. will have to work out some way to stay within the already strained overall budgetless than a fourth of the estimated...
Whether the Democratic Congress goes for tax cuts or public works or, as is most likely, a generous combination of both, the price will be a huge budget deficit. With the recession pushing federal spending up and revenue estimates down, a fiscal 1959 deficit of $5 billion or more already looms. Tax cuts or massive new spending could easily mean a red-ink splash of more than $10 billion, biggest since...
...INTERNATIONAL FUND for loans to underdeveloped nations at generous terms (2% interest, 40 years to repay) has been proposed by Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney. Fund at first would get $300 million from...