Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIME operates on a budget of $100,000 and gives professional level opportunity for people interested in the commercial side of running a paper. Business board members have charge of sales, advertising and budgeting for the paper which offers experience almost as valuable as the school across the river...
Perhaps the real trouble with the American musical theater, of which Rumple is a fair sample, is a glut of achievement. In Porgy and Bess it can boast at least one genuine masterpiece, and in the work of Richard Rogers and Cole Porter it generally displays a very high level of taste and integrity. Furthermore, any cultural phenomenon which shows so much tenacity as the musical theater must fill a real need or it could not exist for thirty or forty years without alteration. Musicals are not only the very distillation of glamor and sophistication, but also hold...
Prominent among the limited inflationists is Harvard's Professor Sumner H. Slichter. The U.S. has had a rising price and wage level almost from its infancy, he argues, simply because an expanding economy steadily bid up the prices of labor and materials. Both sides agree that in a perfectly run economic world it might be possible to avoid inflation if wage rates, labor productivity and profits all rose together in direct proportion to output. But even the classic economists foresee no such perfect world. Thus, if the U.S. is to continue to expand, the prices of labor and materials...
...Angeles. In the Harvard Business Review he called Slichter the exponent of a "defeatist school," which is coldly callous to the fact that creeping inflation has "pauperized countless retired and disabled American citizens" living on fixed incomes. Jacoby urges the Government to make its goal an "absolutely stable price level." This means stopping the wage-price spiral by tightening credit and reducing federal spending, leading to less buying, bigger inventories, production cuts, lower profits, and layoffs. He argued, in effect, for a small recession...
...abundance of good teachers was vital to maintaining a high level of American science, Pusey asserted. He denied, however, that American science was "lagging behind" that of Russia. Development of a satellite before the U.S. was ready with one was due to a "crash," high-priority program in Russia, he said...