Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest increase in social security benefits in the program's 32-year history was passed, raising monthly benefits at least 13% with proportionately larger increases at the bottom of the scale. But the bill included restrictions on state welfare programs subsidized by Washington...
...Administration takes McCarthy's challenge seriously enough to plan a full-scale campaign of Johnsonian electors and stand-in candidates in New England. And, in fact, now that McCarthy is in the lists, he may actually benefit L.B.J. by turning unfocused discontent into a contest between visible opponents, solidifying strength behind the President...
Reischauer believes America's chief hope for a tolerable outcome is "to force the other side gradually to reduce the scale of fighting and eventually to accept some sort of reasonable settlement...
...course there are formidable barriers to this approach. A constituency of educators and parents would have to fight the Boston School Committee's vested interest in vocational education. Companies would have to organize large-scale training programs, which many firms have already done. Boston and its suburbs would have to build direct transportation from the central city to Route 128, where many of the expanding industries are located. But this public transportation is necessary anyway to fill the skilled worker demand in the 128 firms...
...semifinished steel from the Ruhr to use the mill economically. As Germany's largest producer of iron ore and ships, fourth largest coal producer, and seventh largest steelmaker, Salzgitter is in just about every problem industry in Germany. "The only thing we are missing to complete the whole scale of weak industries would be a textile plant," says Wolfram Langer, 51, State Secretary for the Treasury and new chairman of Salzgitter, who has the task of reforming the company...