Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Economists tend to agree on the business profile for 1970: a rise in jobless ranks to 4¼% or 4½% of the labor force; 4% price inflation, probably tapering off toward year's end; sluggish 2% real growth in the over-all economy, which will expand from $933 billion to $985...
In the decade that opens next month, thoughtful business leaders realize they face responsibilities that go beyond the traditional definition of business, and they seem ready to do more than merely pay lip service to them. Next to inflation, recession and the need to end the Viet Nam War, the...
ECONOMICS is the perilous profession, whose leading practitioners put their forecasts on the record in hard numbers almost every year. Members of TIME's Board of Economists, who met this month with the editorial staff in Manhattan and supplied much of the material for the accompanying cover story, made the...
INFLATION is no laughing matter, but the prices of so many products have risen in 1969 that some Pittsburgh newspapermen have concocted a new game based on inflationary psychology. According to them, it now takes three to tango, four's a crowd, and that favorite song of a few...
The pastime is a wry reaction to a far more serious numbers game. As fast as incomes rose, the price of necessities seemed to rise even more steeply in 1969, and few wage-earners felt that they were better off than when the year began. An inflation sampler: