Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...downturn, but the evidence to support them is weak; with the exception of one year (1960), total construction spending has marched steadily upward to new records every year since World War II. Even the apartment glut-and many apartment seekers would dispute that there really is one-probably will lessen as more and more new families are formed each year. With such built-in growth ahead, estimates are that construction outlays will increase by two-thirds, to $107 billion...
...Johnson urges that the moon be renamed "Kennedy" and then invites all legislators and their wives to a "real slambang" pit barbecue on the White House Lawn. The Bell Telephone Company announces that five-digit postal ZIP codes will be substituted for three-digit area codes "in order to lessen the number of codes a person must remember...
...rate of 200,000 a month, says the Labor Department). Statisticians gloomily assert that every rise of 3% in productivity means that 1,800,000 new jobs must be found for workers who are displaced. Administration economists are still committed to the belief that the best way to lessen unemployment is by stimulating production and consumer buying through a tax cut. With a cut, predicts Heller, "by the end of 1964, I think we will have a good chance of pulling unemployment below...
...central difficulty in Tillich's thought lies in his attempt to compound mystical and oceanic notions, such as "Being" and "The Demoniac" with a rigid and absolute ontological system. The result is confusion, not clarity; metaphysical jargon, not insight. Morality and Beyond does not succeed. It does nothing to lessen the gap between morality, which belongs to man, and religion, which belongs...
...Dinh Diem. Although Sihanouk and Diem were bitter enemies, the Prince was shaken by Diem's death and attributed it to the cutoff of Diem's American aid. Possibly determined never to get himself on the same vulnerable spot, Sihanouk moved quickly to lessen his dependence...