Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian economy growing faster than the U.S.'s? Budget Director Maurice Stans last week decried the "cult of growth," which would spur federal spending, unbalance the budget, and touch off another burst of inflation. But International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson Jr. called for new federal taxation, if necessary, to combat Russian expansion (see State of Business...
...best theories on the head. In the last recession the U.S. was helped because it stepped up defense spending after the Soviet Sputnik. In a 1961 recession, if the U.S. has a balanced budget-as now seems possible-the Government will be in a position to cut taxes to spur spending...
George Orwell once observed that the death of the soul, Western civilization's renunciation of the belief in immortality, makes politics immensely the more serious; it could be the spur to a radicalism almost frenetic, hysterical, insane--though Nietzsche's phrase seems more appropriate: "a higher history than all history hitherto." The orthodox have always talked as if losing the hope of immortality would trivialize or vitiate the worth of life altogether. But their opponents might well reply that quite the opposite is true: eternity is only "shortened," as it were--the fate of one's soul, one's hopes...
...spending, which has jumped $20 billion in the last year to its present record of $311 billion; consumer durable goods alone account for $44 billion. By next spring, consumer buying is expected to top $325 billion annually-as much as the total gross national product a decade ago. To spur the rise, personal income, up $20.6 billion in the past year, is expected to jump almost $20 billion in the next twelve months...
...eloquence." Where the Russians fall short is on improvisation. After one demonstration at which Ruff and Mitchell improvised around a current Russian song, a young man asked for the score. "They couldn't understand." says Mitchell, "that except for the basic chords, it was all on the spur of the moment...