Word: statics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insisted that the new credit easing was a routine seasonal matter, but bankers and economists viewed it as a measure clearly designed to aid the static economy. One reason for FRB's caution is that it wants to avoid any sharp change in interest rates lest it step up the U.S. outflow of gold to nations with higher interest rates (see The Solid Gold Problem). Even more important, FRB is moving slowly because, like everyone else, it is unsure about where the economy is going - and whether it needs a nudge or a big push of easier credit...
...adviser of Richard Nixon, Lon L. Fuller, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, hit hard at the Democratic farm program. He said the system of controlling the market by issuing farmers marketing allotments makes for a "static farm system, unable to respond to change in soil, crop, or market conditions...
Identity has grown in stature since its early and unpromising days, and now attracts some of Cambridge's best writers. There has been an equivalent growth in price, so that each issue now costs fifty cents. Unfortunately, in the latest issue the size of the magazine continues static: Identity is as dainty as it was in the days of its sickly youth, publishing only a brief one-act play by Charles Mee, Anyone! Anyone!, Mark Mirsky's very short story, Shkootz, and Caroms, eight poems by Stephen Sandy...
...States has presumably adopted. I believe that an adequate civil defense program is not worth the money, that a greater contribution of deterrence can be made by expenditure on relatively invulnerable weapons systems and on greater mobility and fire power for our conventional forces. Bomb shelters, being an essentially static and inflexible strategic element, could probably in the course of time generate an offensive weapon that would nullify their value. For instance, trench warfare was rendered obsolete by the invention of noxious gases. The history of arms races indicates that such a development is most likely if the prospective counter...
...Vientiane, Premier Souvanna Phouma, in the fashion of Laotian political figures, sought to shut out the political static from the south by playing soothing mood music. Souvanna, who thinks that the Communist-dominated Pathet Lao will call off their guerrillas if only somebody will talk to them nicely and invite them into the government, called on Prince Boun, "whose patriotism is well known," to desist from his "initiative." Then he went off to visit the King Savang Vatthana. But even as he spoke, someone blew up the waterworks in Vientiane. Souvanna sadly ordered all of Prince Boun's relatives...