Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replacement of teaching fellows would also mean increased costs in salaries to the University. Instead of paying graduate students small sums to teach parttime, the University would employ Ph.D.'s at the lowest teaching level which would be financially equal to the level of instructors...
...cold war will continue on an "economic, political and propaganda level," Herter forecast, despite unanimous opposition to open warfare. In spite of this, he charged, the Democrats have repeatedly slashed the foreign aid plans of the Eisenhower administration. The blame must rest with southern Democrats who have lost interest in foreign export markets because of Democrat-backed federal parity supports, he explained...
...silver-haired Anne Wheaton (age: "past 60"), it meant a succession of grueling, twelve-hour days, with twice-daily press briefings punctuated by countless queries from individual newsmen. Since she does not have Hagerty's firsthand knowledge of top-level decisions, the answers often involved some digging, as well as canny hedging in a time of rapidly shifting events. By week's end a lot of paper had flowed through the mimeograph, but Annie still looked fresh, good-humored and full of bounce...
...specifics, the forecasts hardly looked like a "recession" at all. Prices will probably go up 1%. Gross private investment is expected to decline some 5%, and corporate profits will be lower: some $41 billion before taxes, or about 3% less than 1957. But gross national product will stay level at this year's record $439 billion, and industrial production, as measured by the Federal Reserve's index, will only slip 1.5% or 2%, a barely noticeable drop compared to the 5% or 6% decline the U.S. experienced during the so-called 1954 recession. Unemployment will also increase...
America's NATO allies will undoubtedly press their request for nuclear arms and secrets at next month's high-level conference. The Administration can gain a double advantage by granting them this request...