Word: inflationitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A Major Issue. There are a number of visible national issues. Housewives are generally unhappy about high food prices (see U.S. BUSINESS); businessmen and farmers are restive over tight money; many voters remain vaguely uneasy over the course of the Viet Nam war. Yet none of these attitudes by itself...
A longtime champion of civil rights, Douglas is the natural target of whites angered by unruly civil rights demonstrations in Chicago-while Percy is winning the votes of many Negroes irked by the Democratic machine's resistance to their demands. Hulking, white-thatched Douglas, 74, emphasizes his past contributions...
The Governors and mayors who have listened to President Johnson's repeated pleas for cuts in state and local spending may not have been wearing earplugs, but the effect is the same. Nowhere is the Administration's anti-inflation drive being more firmly or more brusquely rebuffed than...
What little restraint there is on spending has resulted not from Johnson's pleas, but from inflation and the tight money it has brought. High construction costs forced South Dakota to delay a $125,000 building for a school for the blind; a $70.5 million New Orleans expressway project...
Even a cutback of federal spending to curb inflation would have little effect if 50 states and thousands of localities were increasing expenditures. On the other hand, in case of a recession, a federal tax reduction to stimulate the economy could be negated by the inexorable rise in state and...