Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prime Mover...
While wage and price guidelines attracted the most attention, Carter was well aware of the complaint by businessmen and some economists that the Federal Government is the biggest single contributor to inflation. With pride, he pointed out that his Administration had reduced the federal budget deficit, a prime contributor to inflation, from $66 billion in Gerald Ford's last year as President, to less than $40 billion in the current fiscal year. He pledged to cut it to "$30 billion or less" next year. As part of the effort to do so, he said he would veto any plan...
...their numbers, blacks have made more political progress than have women in the past decade. Even in Britain, where old-boyism was invented, women have been slightly better represented in the House of Commons and the Cabinet than they are in the U.S. Government; Margaret Thatcher will become Prime Minister if the Conservatives win the upcoming general election. Legislatures in most other countries have a higher proportion of women than the U.S. Congress...
...York City warned tourists to avoid Central Park after sundown. What was abnormal was a quarter-century of stable or declining crime rates between the end of Prohibition and 1960, an era that ended when the baby boom produced a huge generation of 14-to 24-year-olds, the prime age for crime...
...world?has more than doubled the price of U.S. farm land since 1972, to an average $490 an acre last February; prime Midwestern corn and soybean land sells for $2,000 an acre. A tractor that sold for $16,000 in 1974 may cost almost twice as much now; it would have a few new features, but be no more powerful. The result is that farmers have been forced into financing decisions as intricate as those facing corporate treasurers. Borrowing money at interest rates of up to 12% to buy or rent additional land and invest in machinery can improve...