Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million. One reason: the supposedly unfrozen funds will be slow to trickle down to the states and municipalities. That might be just as well for the nation. Most of the extra money would go to build highways -hardly the country's most pressing social need-and a spurt in highway construction would divert resources from the genuine need of private housing.Said one Administration staff economist: "I can't understand all the excitement about the construction bit. It's all really sort of a shell game...
...company that managed to get that magic into its name, or to pass the word that it had even a fringe involvement in the field, enjoyed a profitable play in the market. Since then, the speculative incantation has run through electronic, transistor, missile, computer and-in the recent franchising spurt-fried chicken...