Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outgo some $2 billion below this year's spending level of $79.2 billion. The Defense Department will actually get an unspecified bit more than the $40.8 billion it is spending this year. "Reductions in total spending," said the President hopefully, "will be achieved in part by reason of the ending of temporary programs in agriculture, unemployment insurance and housing...
Promise of Growth. No less important was the turnaround, in 1958, from budget cutting to the beginnings of forward planning in foreign economic policy. One reason: Premier Khrushchev had dramatized economic warfare to millions of Americans fed on cliches about "handouts" when he proclaimed, "We declare war upon you in the peaceful field of trade. We are relentless in this, and it will prove the superiority of our system...
...name exist today. Every violin virtuoso, concertmaster and well-heeled amateur in the world has wanted to own an instrument by the famed Cremona fiddlemaker. The supply, while never plentiful, has surprisingly never been exhausted, and last week the proceedings of a Swiss court pointed to the reason why: buyers of supposed Strads and other instruments with great Cremona labels have been the victims of a traffic in fake violins...
...during the winter months, then start decreasing toward 2,500,000, which is considered about minimum unemployment. "We'll pick them up all right," says Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Ewan Clague, "but it will take us most of 1959 to do it." Part of the reason is industry's rising productivity, which is expected to continue to rise smartly next year, and which in turn will hold down prices. Inflation showed up in almost every speech by leading economists in 1958, but not in prices. There was little doubt that rising costs, high demands...
...Gunner Belloc (he had served in the French artillery) felt free to unlimber a bristling battery of high-caliber snarls against his numerous enemies. They included "poisonous cads" (British peers), "blundering savages and cosmopolitan riff raff" (Russian Communists), "filthy greasy hot Armenians," the "German herd [who] do not reason . . . that is why they take refuge in music," "eunuchs," like Thomas Carlyle, or "screaming Eunuchs," like Hitler, and, of course, "damn fool Editors...