Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reach. Nixon's determination to do something about the overheated economy was prompted by a realization that an "inflationary psychology" is taking hold among Americans. The 10% tax surcharge enacted last June has not slowed spending. Prices continue to rise at the briskest pace since the Korean War. Corporations, borrowing to expand their capacity by 14% this year, are pricing money out of the reach of home buyers, small businessmen, school districts and local governments...
...black hopes for ways out of public schools systems are not as quixotic as they seem. Recent years have seen the start of hundreds of community tutoring programs--most financed and run by community members in local storefronts. Even more intriguing has been the quiet rise of independent ghetto schools--not ad hoc, extra-school programs, but functioning substitutes for ghetto public schools. With their attacks on the school system stalemated, blacks seem to be turning back on their own resources with a new determination. Their infant efforts may not prove educational miracles--it is still too early to tell...
After his son's death, Eisenhower returned to duty, burying his grief in work. The rewards were scarcely commensurate with the efforts. Ike's rise up the promotion ladder was painfully slow. In 1922, he was transferred to the Canal Zone?an inhospitable place in those days?where he became executive officer to Brigadier General Fox Conner, commander of the 20th Infantry Battalion. Next to Eisenhower's parents, Conner was probably the strongest influence in his life, introducing him for the first time to the serious study of military history and strategy. At West Point, Eisenhower remembered with distaste, this...
...more surprised by its rapid rise than the quartet itself. Quartet members often make ends meet by teaching, solo appearances and freelancing. "We were prepared for a long, hard struggle," says Dalley. In fact, the Guarneri's financial worries have been so remarkably short-lived that they are reducing their outside teaching commitments. This year, the quartet will give about 100 concerts (at $1,200 each), compared with a mere dozen in 1965. Its recording work is also increasing, in anticipation of next year's Beethoven bicentennial; the Guarneri will by then have recorded...
Limiting Exports. Builders blame the price problem not only on heavy domestic demand, but on rising exports to Japan, whose timber purchases in the U.S. have increased twentyfold since 1960. Last year the Japanese bought enough lumber to erect 40% of the U.S. output of one-family homes. In response to complaints that numerous small lumber mills as well as price stability have been imperiled, Congress last fall sharply limited exports of lumber harvested from federal forests. But prices have continued to rise, partly because of severe winter weather in the Pacific Northwest and the recent East Coast longshoremen...