Word: rising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Race and Rage. The subcommittee, chaired by Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, says that Chicago's teachers were attacked 1,065 times last year-an eight-fold rise in five years. During the same period, student assaults increased by 500% in the Philadelphia school system, which recorded 116 incidents last year. New York City reported 180. In five months, San Francisco's elementary-school students attacked their teachers 83 times...
...that the Nixon Administration's restraints are finally beginning to hold back business. Some economic indicators remain strong. Factory orders for durable goods, notably steel, engines and turbines, bounced up sharply in September, and capital spending, according to the McGraw-Hill survey released last week, is expected to rise about 8% next year. But largely as a result of the Government's deflationary policies, industrial production has fallen for the past two months, and auto sales dropped in October. Profits are also sluggish. Most economists foresee a decline in earnings and little or no real growth...
FEWER JOBS. The unemployment rate, which long held at 3% or 3.5% of the nation's labor force, was 3.9% in October, when 2,800,000 workers were out of jobs. As business activity slows, the rate is likely to rise to 4.5% or 5% in the next few months, and to as much as 10% among Negroes, because the labor force keeps increasing while the number of jobs shrinks...
...visible for another six months or eight months. We have built in a set of developments that we are not going to get rid of very easily. Almost every Government regulatory commission is literally inundated. They are almost impossibly burdened with handling the consequences of the very substantial rise in interest rates and other costs. This is just one manifestation of the pervasive nature of inflation...
...after pointing out the recent rise, Butler said "this is not enough. It is where we are now, a point from which progress can be continued...