Word: spending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bean will lug Apollo 12's Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to a site up to 1,000 ft. from Intrepid. There the two astronauts will spend an hour setting up five elaborate devices that will test the moon's tenuous atmosphere, measure magnetic fields and also study particles from...
...beautiful, wonderful, wonderful job." he said. "Here we are scratching for pennies trying to give Americans a decent place to live in, and we're spend a billion dollars a week in Vietnam. That's what the protest is involved with. Not just students, but everybody's upset...
...report notes that Latin American nations spend a smaller percentage of their gross national products on defense than any other area of the world except Africa south of the Sahara. It recommends that the U.S. reverse the recent trend to reduce its security assistance. "At the moment there is only one Castro among the 26 nations of the hemisphere; there can well be more in the future," says Rockefeller. Moreover, the U.S. should not turn down requests from more advanced hemisphere nations for modern military equipment. "Realistically," he explains, "it will be purchased from other sources, East or West...
SPRINKEL: Arm twisting can prevent certain prices from going up, or even force them down. The Government has lots of ways of forcing businessmen to act as it prefers. But does that mean that it really contributes to controlling inflation? Is there any reason to believe that less total spending will occur as a result of reducing any particular price in the economy? My answer is no. If we spend less in one area, we are likely to spend more in another area...
...dinner party I gave," says Mrs. Cooney. Among the guests at that February 1966 party was Lloyd Morrisett, then vice-president of the Carnegie Corporation. "Something clicked in Lloyd's mind," says Mrs. Cooney. "Television and preschoolers. Was I interested?" By November her report was ready: "Spend a lot of money on this," she recommended...