Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elections, the Congress Party lost heavily. In Parliament, its once massive majority fell to a bare 24 seats. Fearful that her party would suffer further losses in the 1972 elections, Mrs. Gandhi began trying to attract more voters by nationalizing the banks and promising to accelerate India's pace toward socialism. Her plan brought her into direct conflict with the party's conservative kingmakers, known collectively as the Syndicate, who put her into power four years...
...hold-downs and the tightest money since World War II, the hangover from the previous boom years is proving hard to cure. Economists predict that prices, which have been climbing at an annual rate of more than 5% this year, will be rising at about a 3% or 4% pace around the middle of 1970 (see TIME's Board of Economists, page...
Their frustration is likely to increase during the winter and spring. The economy is at a new and potentially dangerous turning point; inflation is hanging on, but the pace of business is slowing down. Government economists fear that in the early months of 1970, unemployment and prices will be rising simultaneously-and that it will bz almost a miracle if the U.S. does not experience that unhappy combination of events...
...five years Nixon's plan would increase the central pot to $5 billion, resulting in New York City receiving about $250 million. But if the City's budget grows at the same pace that it has been growing for the last decade, from $2.2 billion to $6.6 billion, this still will not amount to more than two per cent of the City's budget...
...early pace on the soggy course was slow and about four Harvard runners were out front with Piazza and Princeton's Eamon Downey. Halfway through the race. Colburn and Piazza were running shoulder-to-shoulder with Mike Koerner and Pottetti close behind...