Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers and -in a land where 51% of the electorate lives on the farm-raised farm subsidies from $40 million in 1963 to an estimated $83 million this year. His policies sent the federal budget plunging steeply into the red and laid the groundwork for a classic inflationary spiral that could become very serious...
...threat of breakdowns in the machine can never be discounted; there is no guarantee that the old wage-price spiral with excessive labor demands resulting in inflationary prices, will not reappear. But the steel settlement just concluded is a typical example of labor's present condition and its relations with industry. A strike, while the threat was real enough did not materialize; increasingly, labor gets its results not through strikes but through other pressures, including the psychological. Steel negotiations were relatively relaxed; the big issue was not pay but fringe benefits. Labor has won the wage battles...
...homes, where they are told to shut up, and the public school, where they are asked to open up and learn. The project puts kids of four, five, and six into "child development centers," where under close personal attention they will be encouraged by simple successes to avoid the spiral of failure that often starts with school's first day. They will have physical examinations, dental care, free meals. Their parents will be counseled at home, urged to help the kids by such easy steps as reading to them and telling them stories...
...circle. As clubs began to be invaded by the hillbillies, jazzlovers became alienated and retreated to their FM radios and phonographs. Then, as fewer people went to hear jazz, clubs found it more and more profitable to hire more folksingers. This alienated the jazzlovers still more, and a downward spiral has developed...
Courted ardently for his collection, Justin Thannhauser recently decided to bequeath the majority of his works to Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. His reasoning: "My collection complements the museum's." Placed on exhibition last week in newly opened galleries off the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed spiral rotunda, Thannhauser's paintings fit so well into the museum's formerly limited collection that in one stroke they make the Guggenheim a historical showcase of modern...