Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rush to Judgment, Lane...
...morning after the speech but rallied within hours and, in a gigantic trading day, closed 8.35 points higher than it opened, and then kept up its steam all week (see U.S. BUSINESS). On Capitol Hill, key finance-committee leaders from both parties predicted that Congress would probably not rush consideration of a tax hike, since the President had not indicated that it was an emergency measure. But they were confident that an increase, if still necessary by spring, would be approved without serious trouble...
...Johnson also asked for an average 20% rise in Social Security benefits. It was an unexpectedly large increase that will pump some $4.1 billion into the economy and may in fact bring enough new money into the market place to offset the drain of new taxes. Politically, a fresh rush of taxes into the Treasury should give Johnson some maneuvering room with the 90th Congress when it comes time to debate Great Society spending...
...book in his hand," says his mother, Mrs. Marie F. Burns, 76. His father died when John was a year old, and his mother subsequently remarried three times-once to a gold prospector who had been in the Klondike. Gardner recalls listen ing raptly to stories of the Gold Rush. "In each," he says, "the central theme was constant-riches left untapped...
...extraordinary 1966 economic growth rate of 10%, helped out by a bumper harvest of wheat, corn and sugar beets, plus a surging production of ships, chemicals and petroleum derivatives. A boom has its price, of course: many Yugoslav cities are for the first time experiencing the agonies of rush-hour traffic jams, packed restaurants and overcrowded shops (workers recently shifted from a sixto a five-day week). Nowadays, Tito can even afford the capitalist luxury of strikes-some 700 of them in the last three years, mostly for higher wages...