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Word: lifting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year Problem. In the process, American troops gave an incalculable lift to South Viet Nam's disheartened people and divided government. And, important as that was, they helped preserve a far greater stake than South Viet Nam itself. As the Japanese demonstrated when they seized Indo-China on the eve of World War II, whoever holds the peninsula holds the gate to Asia. Were Hanoi to conquer the South

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Gen. Westmoreland, The Guardians at the Gate | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...shaking down into a steady, efficient rescue of people fleeing Castro's Communist dictatorship. The flights are now up to two planes a day, five days a week, and the Pan American DC-7s bring their full load of 95 passengers. In the first 24 days of the lift, some 2,500 Cubans left their unhappy homeland. Less than half settled in the Miami area, which already has 100,000 Cuban refugees. The rest of the newcomers went to other cities throughout the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Full Seats & a Cruel Promise | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...nation's economic policies have used Keynesian principles not only to avoid the violent cycles of prewar days but to produce a phenomenal economic growth and to achieve remarkably stable prices. In 1965 they skillfully applied Keynes's ideas?together with a number of their own invention?to lift the nation through the fifth, and best, consecutive year of the most sizable, prolonged and widely distributed prosperity in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: We Are All Keynesians Now | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...that meant the total of all demand in the economy?demand for consumption and for investment, for both private and public purposes. His inescapable conclusion was that, if private demand should flag and falter, then it had to be revived and stimulated by the only force strong enough to lift consumption: the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: We Are All Keynesians Now | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...Department reckons that businessmen's exuberant capital spending?they have invested $190 billion in new plants and machines in the past five years?will pay off with a 3% productivity gain in 1966. That will serve to temper inflation, and so will the fact that the medicare bill will lift social security taxes $5.5 billion yearly beginning Jan. 1. As of now, Government economists expect that consumer prices will rise about 2.5% and wholesale prices will increase 3%?which is not bad enough to require stern corrective measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: We Are All Keynesians Now | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

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