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Word: perlis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense spending as American outlays decline. In any case, judging from the way officials boasted at the Supreme Soviet about more cost-effective defense management techniques and benefits from increased use of computers, it seems clear that the Kremlin is counting on much more rumble per ruble next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Purposeful Budgetry | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Every British jobholder pays a weekly N.H.S. tax of 46? per man, 38? per woman and 26? per child. The added expense of private coverage, a minimum of $58 a year for a family of three to a top of about $166, once made it accessible to only a small minority. No longer. Roughly 70% of Provident's recent business has come from company group policies. Once limited to top executives, these policies are being extended to more and more employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Private Alternative | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...London market last week, the price of privately traded gold dipped to $34.80 per ounce for the first time since it was freed to find its own level 22 months ago. The decline, from a high of $43.80 as recently as last March, represented a resounding defeat for speculators and for theorists who had argued that the official price of gold should be raised and the dollar should be devalued. It was a victory for the U.S. and for those moneymen who believe that gold's power in world affairs should be diminished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold: Fixing a Floor | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...This season he completed 249 passes, a league-leading total supported by Lombardi's fundamentalist ground game. "That's one area we improved upon this year," says Vince, "just by making them run." One result of Lombardi's endless drills: Rookie Larry Brown averaged 4.4 yds. per carry to rank fifth among N.F.L. rushers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whipping Up the Redskins | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

ENTERTAINMENT. Movies were more expensive, up 25? per ticket in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. The cost of watching a Pittsburgh Steelers home game rose from $6 to $7-plus a 15? surcharge to help pay for a now abuilding stadium, whose estimated price increased from $32 million last spring to $35 million at present. In the taverns of the steel city, the 15? beer could be found no more; it now costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Consumer: Behind the Nine Ball | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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