Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond that, many of Washington's ever multiplying programs provide funding commitments that grow automatically with the population or the inflation rate...
...five miles of clothesline along the causeway to Key Biscayne and hung up clothes to dry in the sun. Actor Eddie Albert arrived at Detroit's Cadillac Square in a car powered by gascohol, a mixture of gasoline and alcohol, which can be made from any plants that grow...
...tale of depersonalized murder. It is made somewhat more hopeful only by the inclusion of another, related story--that of Donald Woods's own transformation. Woods describes in detail his own responses to the South African situation. Born in the Transkei--not far, incidentally, from where Stephen Biko would grow up several years later--Woods did not begin to question his superiority to the blacks around him until he went to college, where he was introduced to the concepts of Western liberalism and humanism. He was persuaded to question the apartheid system with which he had been brought...
...would not be inflationary." Since only 82% of the nation's production capacity is being used, he asserted, inflation is not being caused by the excess demand that would be aggravated by big budget deficits, but rather by "a cycle of wage increases, price increases that kind of grow on one another." Within hours, he had a congressional answer of sorts: in a preliminary vote on the budget for fiscal 1979, the Senate decided, 65 to 22, to leave room for a tax cut of only $20 billion. Ullman, who briefed Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal on the bleak...
...decision they find repugnant and inhumane. In the future, however, the organization spearheading the movement against Harvard's South African investments should be closer in concept to a single body. For all the protests of the past months to have full impact, the movement must continue to grow, and that calls for unswerving attention to a single goal: Harvard and U.S. dollars out of South Africa...