Word: mildest
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Theodore A. Andersen, U.C.L.A.: It's by far the mildest recession since the turn of the century. We have a severe unemployment problem because of an extraordinary increase in the labor force and a shortage of trained and educated persons. But gross national product has declined less than 1%, total employment has increased by half a million, and nonproduction jobs are up 1,500,000 over a year ago. I expect production to start rising in March or April...
More Phrases. Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Government and private economists agreed that the recession (the Government economists preferred to call it a downturn) is the mildest since World War II, has been going on for six months, and stems in large part from the economy's failure to emerge strongly enough from the 1957-58 recession. "In no case," said Geoffrey Moore of the National Bureau of Economic Research, "is the contraction as widespread as it eventually became...
...weekly journals of opinion, the New Statesman is beyond much doubt the best written, best edited, most successful-and most maddening. It is read round the world, has particular standing among Asian intellectuals, including India's Prime Minister Nehru, who is apt to agonize over the mildest New Statesman rebuke. In Britain, it is relished or reviled with equal fervor. Wrote Irish Author Sean O'Faolain: "It is the British bible of every washed-up Liberal, soured Conservative, lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar-school intellectual, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole prophylactic against despair...
...doctor at a Berkeley hospital referred him elsewhere when neither he nor Sue had the $450 for an emergency operation, ran after him to demand $10 as an examination fee. The appendix ruptured, Sahl recovered in a veterans' hospital, and the American Medical Association joined his repertory (his mildest joke about the medical world is that "the A.M.A. opposes chiropractors and witch doctors and any other cure that is quick...
When Labor Secretary James Mitchell describes the lives of migrant farm workers, his mildest phrase is "national disgrace." Following the crops northward in three circuits, from Florida to New York, Texas through the Midwest, and California to Washington, migrants are the unskilled outcasts of a skilled economy. Some 500,000 migrants have no chance to vote, no effective union, no minimum wage protection, no unemployment insurance. In 1958 they averaged $961 a year. The victims of this disgrace-affecting 45 states-are children...