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Word: minis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swollen economy began to suffer from inflation. When the Reserve Board overreacted, it slammed on the brakes too hard. Until January 1967, money supply was allowed to grow at a yearly rate of only 3.8%. The result, says Friedman, was the first-quarter slowdown that analysts dubbed the mini-recession of 1967. Since January 1967, the money supply has increased at a 9.9% annual rate, and Friedman blames today's inflation primarily on that fact. Last year he correctly predicted that, in the absence of restraint on money supply, the 10% income tax surcharge would fail to rein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE NEW ATTACK ON KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

Nothing against the mini-mod set, but.for her wedding Julie Nixon chose an old-fashioned gown with schoolgirl sleeves, high collar and pearl-embroidered yoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 27, 1968 | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...when they are young. One has only to look at them in the street. Look at these magnificent girls with their marvelous miniskirts and their straight legs walking along the street full of confidence-and the poor little boys, with their whiskers, desperately trying to show these magnificent mini-skirted creatures that they are her equal. They are more immature than the girl, and if we pass this measure we are going to put a great burden on this boy's shoulders. For heaven's sake, let us give the boy a chance!" Apparently, she was convincing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: One for the Boys | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

Another thing we found out was that whereas it took him years to write Cat's Cradle, a crazy book with mini chapters that leaps forward and around so fast one would think it was written in weeks, he put together the whole of The Sirens of Titan, a much more intricate book, in one night. Vonnegut says he was at a party where someone told him he ought to write another novel. So they went into the next room where he just verbally pieced together this book from the things that were around in his mind. It's really...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: The Cuckoo Clock in Kurt Vonnegut's Hell | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...DREAM WATCHER by Barbara Wersba (Atheneum, $3.95). Albert is a misfit-he reads Thoreau, enjoys gardening, and is always worried about his "crummy soul." As a mini-Holden Caulfield he is as real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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