Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encouraging news for them. The government's operating budget has gone from a $30 million annual deficit to a slight surplus this year. Fruit and vegetable exports have doubled. Housing starts are up 60%, the capital flight has halted, and new investment is trickling in. All this is creating jobs and easing the country's massive unemployment, which still stands at 30%-a good sign that, despite its accomplishments, Balaguer's regime has plenty of problems left to grapple with...
...damages her house means little; the SST's fate lies with Congress. The House recently voted SST appropriations for another year, and that bill is now in the Senate. Shurcliff is the first to admit that the chances of killing off the SST this fall in Congress look very slight. Only six Senators have expressed definite support for the League. And Shurcliff thinks many people have been confused by the Federal Aviation Agency, which continues to hedge on whether it would permit SST flights over land. Shurcliff himself considers that question purely academic. He is sure that even...
True Don Chiofaro and John Tyson had slight injuries and did not play. But Harvard's highly-touted defense has not lived up to its press notices, either Saturday or in last week's scrimmage against the University of Massachusetts (which the Crimson won, four touch-downs...
...ange polyurethane, by containing the fuel and its vapor, reduces the possibility of explosion or fire when the tank is hit by a bullet or ruptures during a crash. At the Air Force demonstration, a bullet fired into a fuel-and-foam-filled tank produced only a slight glow as fuel vapor escaping from the pressurized tank ignited outside. Foam has been successfully used for nine months in the tanks of HH-3E helicopters and other aircraft operating in Viet Nam, the Air Force disclosed, and the Federal Aviation Administration is now investigating the substance for possible use in commercial...
...INCOME. The Commerce Department reported that personal income in July rose by $4.5 billion over June to a record seasonally adjusted annual rate of $627.1 billion. The news reflected higher pay for wage earners and a reduction in unemployment. Also, last month the work week picked up, after a slight decline in June, meaning more overtime and part-time employment. Government economists predict that with the upward swing of the economy-and with the return to school of students who filled jobs during the summer-the currently unemployed will be offered an expanding work market. ∙CORPORATE PROFITS. After...