Word: signed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sign, however, may occur in any variety of porphyria-darkening of the urine, which frequently turns the color of port wine. The discoloration is caused by the presence of porphyrins, purple-red pigments contained in every cell of the human body and responsible for the red color of blood. In porphyria a metabolic defect results in an excess of porphyrins and their byproducts...
...yearly rate to contraction at a 2% rate. Credit evaporated, investor buying power disappeared, and stocks collapsed. This year the money supply has expanded at a modest annual rate of about 21% - just enough, FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin hopes, to accomplish "disinflation without deflation." There is no sign that the FRB will soon make money any easier...
...primary cause of recessions is top-heavy business inventories. In 1966, companies unwisely kept on piling up stocks of goods even as sales were falling; they then had to liquidate quickly, and the result was a steep drop in production-and the "mini-recession" of 1967. An encouraging sign this year is that inventories have been closely keeping pace with sales, and businessmen-having learned from the past-are not overstocked...
Jobs for Life. Consumers are left out of the consensus, and they are becoming restless. Workers strike for giant wage increases-an average 15% this year-that aggravate inflation. Labor unrest is an ominous sign of discontent, for workers have also had their guaranteed place in the semifeudal industrial system. When a youngster fresh out of high school signs on with a company, both parties understand that he will stay on until retirement...
Thus, the appeal of rent control as an issue--and the need to keep the housing convention going--made it likely that many a sign would be waved and many a voice would be raised on the issue. Yet more general factors--the style of Cambridge politics and the idea behind the agitation over the specific issue of rent control--were also at work...