Word: prolongs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time being, many foreign countries were stamping their feet instead, demanding a prolongation of the pause. The Japanese, for example, wanted more time to explore the possibilities of a breakthrough, even though Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina had found no hint of one in a week-long visit to Moscow. Besides, Tokyo has built up a thriving trade with Hanoi and fears that renewed U.S. bombing might force its ships to steer clear of Haiphong, North Viet Nam's major port. Though the British bravely agreed to support the President, they would clearly have preferred that he prolong the pause...
...Congress, despite the President's quest for a broad consensus, the division of opinion to some extent has continued to follow party and regional lines. Republicans and Southern Democrats generally favored resuming the bombing, while Northern Democrats and liberal Republicans mostly hoped to prolong the pause...
Much of the problem may be that a suicidal lady who phones for help obviously intends to be saved, and suspense becomes a matter of mechanics. While the clock ticks away, while rescuers all around town carefully prolong the agony and news photographers batter at his door, Poitier behaves precisely like an Oscar-winning actor who has to work up an hour or more of excitement with a hot line as his only prop and such depressing pep talk as "You're something all your own, just as I am." Bancroft retaliates by spelling out her problem in flashbacks...
True enough. Duesenberry, 47, will arrive in Washington at a pivotal time in the council's 19-year history: just when the economy needs more skillful Government management than ever to prolong prosperity without bringing on inflation. The biggest difficulty, Council Chairman Gardner Ackley explained last week in a Manhattan speech, is that "economists simply don't know" enough about how a high-employment economy works to enable them to act "with a high degree of reliability." Adds Duesenberry: "Our problem is to get as much flexibility as we can into 1966 policies, and to avoid any irreversible...
...believe that whatever happens, the Government will somehow keep the economy strong and rising. With this new confidence, they no longer worry so much about the short-term wiggles and squiggles of the economic curve but instead budget their capital spending for the long-term and thus help to prolong the expansion...