Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital spending, according to the McGraw-Hill survey released last week, is expected to rise about 8% next year. But largely as a result of the Government's deflationary policies, industrial production has fallen for the past two months, and auto sales dropped in October. Profits are also sluggish. Most economists foresee a decline in earnings and little or no real growth in the gross national product during the first half...
...perils of recession. Martin's real hallmark at the Federal Reserve was a willingness to switch from easy-to tight-money policies and back again as he thought the situation required. He cooperated with the expansionist policies of President Kennedy when the nation's economic problem was sluggish growth and persistent unemployment. In late 1965, however, he refused to accept Lyndon Johnson's line that the U.S. could escalate the Viet Nam war, keep taxes and interest rates down and still avoid inflation; the Federal Reserve tightened credit, to L.B.J.'s displeasure...
...when Yovicsin admitted that Champi was his starting quarterback, but not his only one, a Boston paper ran a lengthy feature in its Sunday section. Naturally, when Harvard looked sluggish against Holy Cross and lost to B.U. people started wondering. What's wrong with Champi? When Champi quit the squad last week, the amount of coverage he received was not only far out of proportion but almost shamefully unnecessary...
Harvard was able to get through the Holy Cross game successfully with a sluggish offense, but that same lackluster offensive play was not good enough Saturday, and the Crimson lost its first game since November, 1967, to Boston University...
...hungry for a third victory, and Boston sportswriters have been billing the contest as a "battle of unbeatens." This is hardly the case. The Terriers have whipped both Colgate and Vermont. but in neither case did they defeat a strong football team. Harvard has beaten Holy Cross, but looked sluggish on offense...