Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist promise that the war would be over by August of 1968, with Hanoi and the Viet Cong victorious-a promise that the Communist Tet offensive bolstered for a time in the Red ranks, keeping waverers in line. But lately the rate of defections has begun to rise noticeably toward 1967 levels, indicating that that promise may be wearing a bit thin...
...Communists rise up so prematurely-long before they were ready for a real test of armed strength with the government? Puzzled Djakarta officials put it down to the Indonesian Communists' notoriously bad sense of timing and planning. After all, an ill-prepared Communist uprising flopped in 1948, and the 1965 coup attempt was a model of mismanaged conspiracy...
...Even so, some price gains have already overtaken the wage increases. The cost of draft beer has risen 10% in Paris, a loaf of bread now costs 120 instead of 100 (a 20% jump), and many restaurants have increased the price of a $1.40 meal to $1.80 (a 29% rise...
Packard's explanation of his statistics offers little more than an acknowledgment of what many social scientists have been saying for years. The rise in premarital relations, he feels, is due largely to an undermining of woman's traditional role. Not only does the teenage girl find the rules at home increasingly relaxed, but 19% more American women attend college than did in 1940. And today's centers of higher education are geared to provide them with independence of thought, to say nothing of an opportunity and urge to exercise that independence...
...into a partial "rollback." Minutes after U.S. Steel announced its move, Arthur Okun, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, summoned reporters to his Washington office and pronounced himself gratified. Spread industrywide, Bethlehem's increase would have filtered through the economy as a $1.1 billion rise in consumer prices. Now, he said, "the American consumer has been saved $500 million in inflation...