Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have run into resistance from his Kennedy in-laws. However, Nixon intends to keep Shriver as Ambassador to Paris, where Yost once served as deputy chief of mission. Yost entered the foreign service in 1930 and, after taking a brief recess for some short-story writing and freelance journalism, rose steadily to the coveted rank of career ambassador. He held three ambassadorships (Laos, Syria, Morocco) in the Eisenhower Administration, then became deputy to Adlai Stevenson and Arthur Goldberg at the United Nations. In 1966, he retired to join the Council on Foreign Relations. In a 1964 book...
...returned to Mississippi and became Tougaloo's business manager, rose to the presidency in 1965. "I took over," says Owens, "at a time when new opportunities for Negroes in American life were really coming about. We knew we had to educate our students for a new day of equal opportunity...
...about 2% a year or less, as was the case from 1960 through 1965. Over the last twelve months, however, consumer prices have jumped 4.3%, the greatest annual gain since the Korean War year of 1951. During October, the latest month for which statistics have been compiled, consumer prices rose at a frantic 7.2% annual rate. While the nation's output of goods and services climbed 8.7% to a record of $860 billion for the year, almost half of that was accounted for by price increases. Just over half represented "real growth...
...haircuts and $72-a-day hospital rooms. Housewives complained about $1.99-a-lb. sirloin, and the President-elect of the U.S. yearned to find a good 50? hamburger. Price increases were so pervasive that not a single component of the Government's price index declined. Transportation rose 4.2%, food 4.5%, apparel 6.6%, medical care 7.2%. By Washington's official reckoning, which probably understates the cost of living in many large cities, it now takes $122 to buy goods and services that a decade ago cost...
...went up, wages went up much faster. During the year's first nine months, about 3,400,000 unionized workers won pay raises averaging 7.5% annually, the largest gain since the Labor Department started keeping track 14 years ago. For the year as a whole, wages and benefits rose about 7%, while productivity increased only 3.2%. The result was that so-called unit labor costs jumped 3.8% -and the consumer had to pay for the jump...