Word: inflationitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unpredictable. The economy also is in the bottom drawer. "If any national issue works against the Democrats-and I'm not sure any will-it will be high prices in supermarkets," says Wisconsin's Lieutenant Governor Patrick Lucey, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate. But unparalleled prosperity should help Democrats...
Promise of Peace. He has performed almost as if he were riding a bandwagon instead of a tank. Since July, when the election "campaign" officially began, Costa e Silva has barnstormed virtually all of Brazil's 22 states, made scores of speeches, shaken tens of thousands of hands. He...
Gloomy Diagnosis. The other great subject for discussion, aid to underdeveloped countries, got a gloomy diagnosis from the financiers in Washington. The World Bank and its offshoots, the easy-loan International Development Association and the private enterprise-oriented International Finance Corp., have made a grand total of $11 billion in...
The successful conservative primary candidates did not propose to repeal the innovations of the New Deal, Fair Deal, and New Frontier; they knew that most voters are upset by the events of the past three years, not the past thirty. And they claimed that Johnson and his supporters have shown...
Maddox ran a campaign geared to the racists and the "small man" disenchanted by federal spending in time of inflation. He was able to combine strong support from these overlapping blocs -- and Republicans voting in the Democratic primary--to defeat the wealthy Arnall, who had been an outstanding state executive...