Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spiral of Violence. When the U.S. demanded an official explanation of the Congressman's statement, Lopez Mateos' government was forced to humiliate itself at home by denying that the Congressman spoke for the government. Mexico's latent anti-gringoism began to rise. Students and leftists marched past the U.S. embassy shouting "Cuba, yes! Yanquis, no!", battled police who tried to keep them from demonstrating outside Lopez Mateos' palace...
...inflationary spiral peeked through occasionally. The standard $20 fee disappeared in 1929, board rates had gone from $7 per week in 1919 to $8.50 in 1920. By 1937, each course cost $30, and the trend continues steadily after World War II to the present figure...
Star Populations. Another of Baade's absorbing interests was the evolution of stars. After long and subtle observing, Baade found that there are two sorts of star "populations." Population I contains brilliant giant stars that are found chiefly in the outer spiral arms of a galaxy. Population II, of which the sun is a member, contains the less spectacular stars that make up most of any given galaxy's central disk. Baade concluded that the stars of Population I were recently formed out of cosmic dust and gas, and that they are rapidly burning themselves out. The stars...
...been tightening money since the last half of 1958 in an attempt to restrain inflationary pressures. Now, despite a slow advance in prices, the Fed feels that inflationary pressures are under control. Some of the unrealistic business exuberance in January that might have started another inflationary spiral in 1960 has been toned down. The Fed was not worried by a sharp rise in installment buying, which is usually the last form of credit to be affected by high interest rates. Installment credit in April rose $533 million to $40.3 billion, the biggest monthly gain since August...
...trimmings-a hotel, a swimming pool, Turkish baths, and something called the multicinema, where seven small theaters will show the same film but at staggered times, so that the viewer can walk in any time. The fanciful project is Caracas' newest pride; thousands of cars bear spiral helicoid decals in tribute to the latest furbelow on an already spectacular skyline...