Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Easing the Pinch. Heller's recipe for speeding up economic growth calls for a sharp break with the Eisenhower Administration's "tight money" policy. As its main instrument for preventing inflation and achieving price stability, the Eisenhower Administration, with the cooperation of the Federal Reserve System, relied on a policy of keeping interest rates high, and pinching the overall supply of money and credit. At the same time, it labored to cut down public spending and achieve a balanced budget...
...things considered, the lot of New York City Police Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy has been tough and not particularly happy. An up-from-the-ranks cop with the personality of a blunt instrument (TIME Cover, July 7, 1958), Steve Kennedy had to run an understaffed, underpaid army of 24,000 men, many of them good, some of them not, most of them as contentious as only a New Yorker -and a uniformed one at that-can be. Stubborn, straight as a pistol shot, he worked relentlessly for 5½ years to instill honesty, discipline and a sense of pride...
...FOREIGN NEWS). The Soviet Union threatened military intervention in behalf of the Communist-lining Congolese Pretender Antoine Gizenga. It reopened its campaign to destroy the authority of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and. in effect, to destroy the U.N. as a force for law and as a workable instrument of orderly neutrality...
...latest instrument, built in 1958, is an intricate web of wires and spidery, movable arms that covers nearly five acres of ground and can count colliding galaxies that are 8 billion light-years away...
...electron microscope works by shooting electrons through an object and bringing them to a magnified focus on the far side. The object shows as a shadowed picture because some parts of it stop more electrons than others. Since electrons are scattered by air, the interior of the instrument must be an almost perfect vacuum, which would dry up and kill almost instantly all living bacteria...