Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Welcome as such statements were, Wall Street showed much more excitement over what brokers were calling "the Nixon market." Reflecting belief that a Republican Administration would be good for corporate profits, stock prices rose last week to their highest level in two years amid heavy trading volume. Continuing a two-month rally, the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed...
Where It Hurts. Price increases provoke sporadic boycotts, particularly among housewives. Generally, however, the consumer response has been one of resigned indifference. Most families have up to now overcome the price differential by cutting back a bit on a record level of personal saving. There has also been little hesitation about going into debt. Consumer installment credit increased in August by $853 million, the Federal Reserve Board noted last week; this was the largest one-month rise in 27 years...
...would fix the maximum rent for any Cambridge apartment at a level equal or less than the rents charged on Jan. 1, 1968. The new law would not apply to small dwellings with four apartments or less...
...need. Lyndon Johnson and his Administration have recognized the problem, but his war budgets have not been able to provide the assistance he admits is necessary; this summer the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education reported that federal aid to colleges and students should be at least double its present level. President Johnson has appointed a study group to develop plans for a comprehensive government aid program, but its future depends on the attitude of the next Administration...
While White's choice of photographs may not satisfy everyone, he has constructed a unified exhibit of pictures that is effective on two different levels. On a purely visual level each photograph is a pleasing two-dimensional arrangement of lines and shapes, of tones and patterns. But nearly every picture in every exhibit has this quality. Many exhibits then go on to comment on some phase of human life, or of man's environment, or of nature. In such exhibits the photographers present their individual statements, which the viewer can then either accept, deny, or ignore...