Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current Government fiscal year, the red ink will be about $12 billion; though President Eisenhower plans to present a balanced budget to Congress for the year beginning July 1, the outlook still is for a deficit of upwards of $3 billion. This may well be trimmed as Government income rises with business. Few economists believe that inflation can be ended, barring a depression, since a rising price level has been with mankind since the dawn of time, and is almost inevitable in a dynamic economy. The problem is to keep it within bounds-under a 1½% price rise...
...student left high school. With a few exceptions, of which Harvard is apparently one, the American college seems to accelerate students' assimilation into the dominant marketplace culture, rather than channeling or redirecting their growth. Students take new ideas seriously only when their college sub-culture makes the old outlook inapproprate. This means that the whole college atmosphere must be distincly "un-American," either because the scholars infiltrate undergraduate life (as in some small colleges), or because the student body is pre-selected to deviate from national norms (as at Harvard...
Those compulsory yellow curtains will give the Smithies a rather jaundiced outlook, won't they? Vive Radcliffe...
...cars, women's and girls' clothing, rents, medical care, cooking gas, fresh vegetables, beef, milk. Down: house furnishings, men's and boys' clothing, fresh fruits, pork, eggs, poultry (lowest level since December 1942), restaurant meals (first decline since June 1956). The long-range outlook as most experts saw it: renewed upcreep in prices under the push of wage raises and heavy Government expenditures. But before the climb started, harried consumers found it nice to rest on a plateau...
Actually, such a course would serve as "a clearing influence" to inform the student on the background of recent changes in Christian outlook, Dawson added...