Word: growths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapidly renovating the texture of domestic politics. Reactions such as California's Proposition 13 appear as exceptional warning flares generated by primitive but widespread discontent over government services and their costs. But behind these exceptional outbursts, political and economic realignments are redefining the dynamics of the state's budget growth...
...widening gap between state revenues and the demand for state funds raises two fundamental questions. First, our understanding of the dynamics of budget growth is clearly underdeveloped, attracting much concerned attention. Traditional economics emphasizes the use of government expenditures as countercyclical economic stimuli, but the actual history of government spending suggests that more important and complex political economic pressures are involved...
...Farber's revelations have tended to obscure the issues originally raised in the case, it is more important than ever to consider those issues seriously. The Farber case dramatically highlights the double-edged significance of the growth of investigative journalism in the last several years. The same press that can inform the public and thereby protect citizens from attempts to curtail their personal and political rights may also inadvertently set in motion proceedings that may deprive individuals of their life and liberty...
...this point in his life, Carlin must face the problem of growth. For an artist to continue art, he must develop ceaselessly and elude decadence. But as he gets older and most of his self-expression becomes already expressed, Carlin's importance as a teller of irony pales. He kicks inadvertently at the posh golden carpeting under his feet at the Pierre...
...fund was planned over the past several years as part of a process defining the "needs and aspirations" of the college, Wigglesworth said, and is a "comprehensive development and growth plan" rather than one-shot campaign...