Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because he couldn't get it all at once. And nobody can." At the end of one of his poorer days, Truman growled over a bourbon and water: "They talk about the power of the President, how I can just push a button to get things done. Why, I spend most of my time kissing somebody's ass." And Johnson roared recently: "Power? The only power I've got is nuclear and I can't use that...
...countries in the world that China has continued to cultivate scrupulously through the otherwise convulsive xenophobia of the Cultural Revolution is Tanzania on the Indian Ocean's western shore. China has even promised to spend $280 million and send the coolie labor to build a railroad connecting Tanzania and Zambia, a plan that the World Bank rejected as uneconomic. Such generosity might well contain the seeds of a quid pro quo: a Chinese monitoring and tracking station in Tanzania when Mao's rockets are ready to whoosh down the Indian Ocean range...
...panel envisioned suburban-like school districts within the city, each with its own superintendent and a policy-setting board that would have full power to hire and fire personnel, design the curriculum and spend centrally allotted funds. The plan has been approved by Mayor John Lindsay, and will be debated in the next session of the New York legislature, which must change existing state laws if it is to go into effect...
...year earlier, were deluged with deposits. Thus housing became the year's comeback industry, climbing from an annual rate of 1,111,000 private starts in January to 140% of that level. On the other hand, retail sales-which normally account for two-thirds of what consumers spend.-rose barely faster than consumer prices, which jumped 21%, on top of a 3% gain...
...terms, with the 3% or 31% price inflation and with unemployment hovering about where it already stands. Bankers feel that the Federal Reserve will apply a brake to credit expansion, but gently enough to allow housing to continue its gains. Many businessmen look for consumers to save less and spend more; Detroit, for example, expects at least 9,000,000 auto sales. There are, of course, some clouds over that rather rosy view. Stockpiling to minimize the impact of potential midyear strikes in steel, aluminum and nickel could produce violent inventory swings...