Word: resulted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cherished Great Society programs without asking for a tax increase, but he refused to take the unpopular step until much too late. From 1965 to 1969, more than $42.5 billion in Government deficit spending flooded into the economy, which was already surging ahead at nearly full capacity. Result: inflation leaped from...
...West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic government, supported by powerful but reasonable trade unions, has largely held a noninterventionist course and ignored demands that the government cut taxes or raise spending every time a troubling economic forecast is issued. Result: West Germany's inflation rate is one-third as steep as the U.S.'s, its unemployment rate is only slightly over half as high, and the country's living standards are rising...
REDUCED R. AND D. Spending on research and development has dropped from about 3% of G.N.P. in 1964 to 2% last year. One reason: managers have concluded that inflation makes the payoff too long-term and too uncertain. One result: the number of U.S. patents issued to Americans has fallen 25% since 1971, while the number issued to foreigners has risen...
...workers" who have been allowed in on a temporary basis to fill factory and public service jobs. But in Britain, by contrast, most of the minorities are citizens; moreover, fully 40% of the country's nonwhites were born in Britain, and that proportion is swelling fast as a result of a birth rate that is 50% higher than the national average. Yet there is an almost unconscious refusal to accept them. In the last major poll on racial issues, taken by Gallup in February 1978, 49% thought that nonwhites should be offered financial help to return "home...
...boarding school for boys. "When out on a date, be sure to head home early." "Refrain from premarital sex even when the girl is your fiancee." "If you go all the way, marry her quickly or your fever will cool down." "Keep your hands off married women or the result will be a calamity." "Beware of sweet words from bar girls and cabaret hostesses...