Word: national
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Brown's emphasis on soccer has obviously produced results. Last year the Bruins went all the way to the N C A A semifinals before being eliminated by eventual champion Michigan State, 2-0. At the start of this season, Brown was ranked fifth in the nation...
FEWER JOBS. The unemployment rate, which long held at 3% or 3.5% of the nation's labor force, was 3.9% in October, when 2,800,000 workers were out of jobs. As business activity slows, the rate is likely to rise to 4.5% or 5% in the next few months, and to as much as 10% among Negroes, because the labor force keeps increasing while the number of jobs shrinks...
NATHAN: Over the next three to five years, the big issue will be whether we have big tax reductions or whether we use more Government income for a fuller meeting of the nation's huge, unsatisfied social and community needs...
...back to a tolerable trade-off between unemployment and inflation, and we will again be growing in real terms at 4% a year. If we maintain our commitment to full employment and rapid growth, if we attempt to cope with the great social stresses and strains in our nation, it will be very tough to get the G.N.P. deflator consistently below 2.5%. We have to learn to live with something around 2.5% to 3% inflation. If we get down to 2.5%, we will be doing well by international standards...
...essay called "The Dead World and the Live World." written for The Sixties. Bly complained about the refusal of our literature to "shed its skin." to talk about what wasn't "exclusively human.": "One can predict first of all that such a nation will bomb foreign populations very easily, since it has no sense of anything real beyond its own ego." To this insight Bly has brought the evidence of poets in translation, publishing in small editions the work of Spanish. German, and Scandinavian writers who were receiving little or no attention in this country. It is from poets like...