Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Personal incomes and corporate profits are both rising, while the dollar totters abroad and stock prices nosedive. One survey shows consumer confidence at a five-year high; another puts it at a two-year low...
...come in March). The reasoning is that an expanding economy does not automatically reduce unemployment among the groups most plagued by joblessness; employers who need more help turn first to the most experienced workers, and these generally turn out to be adult white males, whose unemployment rate already is low...
...many executives by thundering that Big Oil wanted to "rip off' the people, sprinkled his State of the Union message and economic report with flattering references to private business as the great provider of income and jobs. Blumenthal expounds on the point: "Business investment, which has been too low, is the key not only to keeping the economy going, but also the key to fighting inflation." His reasoning: if companies do not build, expand and modernize factories, production bottlenecks and shortages will develop as the economy expands, and price increases will speed...
...press campaign in the East tried to discredit the manifesto as a "malicious concoction" of West German intelligence. Initially some Communist-propaganda experts in Bonn had suspected the document's authenticity. Now, however, there is agreement that the manifesto was composed by a small group of dissidents and low-level party members in the East...
...General Jack Corrin has promised that future birchings would be laid on "over ordinary cloth trousers" rather than traditional bare buttocks. The whipping has always been limited to twelve strokes on male youths aged 14 to 20. And, claimed Corrin, it has noticeably helped in keeping the crime rate low...