Word: spate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offered the President a chance to carry the crucial battle into enemy territory. Rather than merely defend against a spate of pump-priming schemes, he could attack the policies that pump inflation into the economy: "The chief way for Government to discharge its responsibility in helping to achieve economic growth with price stability is through the prudent conduct of its own financial affairs...
...stockholders fared so well. Du Pont chopped its year-end payment from $2 to $1.50 per share. United Fruit, citing fruit damage from wind storms, cut its dividend from 75? to 50?. American Telephone & Telegraph declared the same $2.25 quarterly dividend it has paid for 37 years, despite a spate of rumors of a raise. But stockholders have fared well this year despite dividend cuts in hard-hit industries. The New York Stock Exchange reported that cash dividends on common stocks for the first three quarters set a record high of $6.4 billion, up $11.2 million from...
Also on the program were a Telemann Sonata, a Rameau suite, and a spate of smaller pieces--mostly Renaissance chansons. In some of the latter, each verse was played with a different combination of instruments--an authentic Renaissance practice, since instrumentations were not specified by the composers. And in one piece, "improvised" ornamentation was applied from a 16th-century instruction book. This scholarly approach extended even to the printed program, which contained a complete list of manuscript and printed sources such as would warm the heart of the most demanding Ph. D. dissertation grader...
...procreative powers," said the report, "the more responsible we are for the way in which we use them. If our conscience will not tolerate, when we know how to prevent it, a torrent of infant deaths, no more should we, with the knowledge we have, encourage an ungoverned spate of unwanted births...
Perhaps the basic political fact about recessions in the U.S. today is that the Federal Government is committed by law, custom, popular demand and political necessity to combatting them. Last week, confronted by a spate of plunging graphs and slipping statistics, both the White House and Capitol Hill were talking plenty of combatting. Items...