Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This fall, student dissidents were expected to create more chaos on more campuses than ever. But they have failed to disrupt the University of California at Berkeley, where the wave of rebellion began four years ago. Last week a call for a campus-wide strike was heeded by less than 20% of Berkeley's 28,000 students, even though the activists had an issue far more provocative than anything enjoyed by Mario Savio and his 1964 Free Speech Movement...
...forgotten books. When more militant demonstrators next occupied Moses Hall, damaging furniture and files, Heyns got tougher. He summoned off-campus cops to grab 72 of them in a predawn raid; although they submitted meekly, he immediately suspended all of them. The protesters then issued their call for a strike by students and faculty but had trouble even getting enough supporters to man picket lines...
...over previous expectations of a surplus of $1 billion or less, but it is still no cause for rejoicing. At $1.5 billion, the surplus would fall 63% below last year's $4.1 billion level. It would give the U.S. its worst year in foreign trade since a lengthy steel strike crippled exports...
...climbed 22% this year, while exports have grown only 9%. About one-sixth, or $1 billion, of the import surge was caused by U.S. labor troubles. Copper imports, for example, doubled to $600 million during the first half of this year as a result of a 37-week miners' strike. The threat of an August steel strike brought a 59% jump in iron and steel imports. Most of the blame for increased imports, however, can be placed on the seemingly insaliable U.S. consumer, who continues to spend despite increased taxes and the inflation-diminished dollar. Over the first nine months...
...billion into the U.S. stock market but also bought $1 billion more of U.S. corporate bonds than they sold. Among exports, chemicals and transportation equipment (notably jet aircraft) have increased substantially, and recently foreign orders for durable goods have picked up. The threat of a mid-December dock strike has prompted many U.S. exporters to ship early. For the longer run, Washington is counting on a slowdown in domestic inflation, combined with an expansion of Western Europe's economy, to lift overseas demand still further...