Word: switches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Czech background suits ethnic groups, and he is trying to attract the city's blue-collar workers by hinting that he will oppose right-to-work laws if they will yield slightly to black demands. A former state secretary of labor and industry, the moderate Tabor promises to switch millions of dollars from patronage jobs to strengthen the police department. "If that is a law-and-order campaign," says Tabor...
...contrast, Bill Martin over the years has been much more worried about the perils of recession. Martin's real hallmark at the Federal Reserve was a willingness to switch from easy-to tight-money policies and back again as he thought the situation required. He cooperated with the expansionist policies of President Kennedy when the nation's economic problem was sluggish growth and persistent unemployment. In late 1965, however, he refused to accept Lyndon Johnson's line that the U.S. could escalate the Viet Nam war, keep taxes and interest rates down and still avoid inflation...
...change his mind once he has made it up, he could stay on that course too long. Burns will unquestionably continue to have Nixon's ear. But there is some doubt in Washington about what will happen when the President decides that the time has come to switch from anti-inflation to antirecession policies-and quietly calls on the Chairman of the Federal Reserve to ease up on money. At that time, will Nixon have the ear of strong-willed Arthur Burns...
Worst hurt will be the processors of foods containing the sweetener. Most of the cyclamate supply now goes into diet drinks, which have gained at least a 15% share of the market for soft drinks. There is some question whether diet drinkers will switch back to sugar-sweetened drinks or just give it all up in favor of water. Cyclamates are also used in puddings, gelatins, salad dressings, jams and jellies, ice cream and practically all diet foods. The producers of "cured" bacon commonly use cyclamates, which are cheaper than sugar. Cyclamates even go into the making of children...
Long War. The chip controversy is the latest battle in the long war that traditional foods have been losing to various substitutes. Fewer calories, less cholesterol, no refrigeration, uniform quality and many other claims have been used to persuade the U.S. consumer to switch to nondairy creamers in her coffee, orange-flavored breakfast drinks, soybean meal in hamburger, and simulated bacon. Sales of fabricated foods are rising, but many people feel that the old-time products taste better...