Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office throughout most of Asia. On his lieutenant general's salary of $509 a month (the President's salary has not yet been fixed), he has reportedly managed to accumulate considerable acreage, and can afford to send Mme. Thieu to Paris now and then for a shopping spree...
Americans have lately gone on a savings spree. So far this year, they have been salting away 7.10 of each dollar -a nine-year high and far above the 5.50 considered normal. Deposits have been rising at an annual rate of 17% at commercial banks, setting new records for eight months running at savings banks. The nation's savings and loan associations, which were left dry by a net outflow of $1.4 billion in July 1966 because of the money crisis, last week reported a healthy $64 million increase in funds for July...
...fuss about the lotteries is only one sign that the U.S. is on a gambling spree; gambling expenditures may have doubled in the past decade. Las Vegas, with its bargain-basement prices for rooms and floor shows and its free round-trip air fares for well-heeled customers, is now getting competition from oases in the Bahamas and Puerto Rico. The numbers racket (estimated total revenue: $1.5 billion) was once known as "the black man's stock market"; now it is moving all over town. Perhaps the fastest-growing action is betting on sporting events (estimated total: $2.2 billion...
...stepped out at a time of unprecedented strife on the nation's largest Negro campus (enrollment: 11,000, about 12% white). Though Nabrit a generation ago was a pioneering court room lawyer in the civil rights movement, he found himself branded a reactionary last spring when a spree of black-power incidents struck his campus. Militant pacifists booed Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey off a stage, burned Nabrit and Hershey in effigy, boycotted classes...
...done about government spending. Over the years, when rapid economic growth promised to produce enough cash to meet almost any demand on the federal treasury, Germany built up an ever more costly welfare system, propped up its inefficient agriculture and high-cost coal mines with vast subsidies. That spending spree, matched by consumers and fueled by galloping wage increases, kept prices moving steeply upward. When the alarmed Bundesbank stepped in with sharply higher interest rates, bank credit became so scarce and expensive that industrial expansion fell sharply, and some cautious manufacturers began shortening their work week. The ensuing downturn helped...