Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is sophomore winger Tammy Shewchuk, who led the nation in goals with 51 and finished second to Mleczko with 54 assists. Even if Shewchuk never becomes a playmaker of Mleczko's caliber, she will be a major asset on Harvard's top line for two more seasons...
...been an outstanding center for two years. She did not dominate opponents like her teammates on the top line, but Francisco--who set Harvard's single-season scoring record with 57 points last year before four players passed that mark in 1998-99--quietly finished ninth in the nation with 51 points this year. Her hat trick in the championship game showed that she can score from the crease as well as create opportunities for her teammates...
...until the U.S. entered World War II did F.D.R. try Keynes' idea on a scale necessary to pull the nation out of the doldrums--and Roosevelt, of course, had little choice. The big surprise was just how productive America could be when given the chance. Between 1939 and 1944 (the peak of wartime production), the nation's output almost doubled, and unemployment plummeted--from more than 17% to just over...
...Federal Government did, for the next quarter-century. As the U.S. economy boomed, the government became the nation's economic manager and the President its Manager in Chief. It became accepted wisdom that government could "fine-tune" the economy, pushing the twin accelerators of fiscal and monetary policy in order to avoid slowdowns, and applying the brakes when necessary to avoid overheating. In 1964 Lyndon Johnson cut taxes to expand purchasing power and boost employment. "We are all Keynesians now," Richard Nixon famously proclaimed. Americans still take for granted that Washington has responsibility for steering the economy clear...
...many cases make an epidemic? Survivors of the great polio plagues of the 1940s and '50s will never believe that in the U.S. the average toll in those years was "only" 1 victim out of every 5,000 people. Was that really all it took to scare the nation out of its wits, sending families scurrying in all directions--to the mountains, to the desert, to Europe--in vain hope of sanctuary...