Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rogers also had news, but it was of a happier sort: low-level preparatory arms talks between the U.S. and Russia, he announced, will begin "fairly soon," probably within two or three months. More important, when the two nations start bargaining in earnest-which should be well before Safeguard is deployed in 1973-the system could be scuttled entirely. "If the Soviet Union, when we start these talks, indicates that it wants to get out of the defensive-missile business, we can get out of it very quickly," Rogers said. That reasoning only added evidence to suggest that Nixon...
...more tragic in the civil rights movement than the attitude that the black man can solve his problems by himself." Indeed, Cleveland's Mayor Carl Stokes and Gary's Mayor Richard Hatcher could not have been elected without considerable white support. White cooperation is vital at every level of development, if only because no amount of incantation can change the basic ratio of blacks to whites in the U.S. population...
...economy. The phenomenon worries Washington for two reasons: 1) it has an immediate inflationary effect, and 2) it could lead to industrial overcapacity followed by a profit squeeze and massive layoffs. Today the nation's factories are operating at only 84% of their capacity, well below the 90% level that normally triggers expansion...
...momentum of 96 consecutive months of economic expansion leaves most executives confident about 1969, despite all the talk of a slowdown. Last week the Commerce Department reported that factory orders for durable goods-an important indicator of future economic activity-rose by $1 billion in February to a record level of $31 billion. Even a small decline in auto assemblies last month did not prevent industrial production from setting a new record for the fourth month in a row. Recovering from a January slump, personal income increased $5.3 billion in February to a record annual rate of $491 billion. Most...
...precise relationship of blacks and the Black Panther Party to the left student organization along with re-definition of SDS's role within schools (both at the high school and university level) appear to be two of the major issues SDS will discuss...