Word: taking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy's Hyannis Port home is only twelve miles away and Tsongas has said that he might run as a stand-in for Kennedy in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. The dominant topics, instead, were inflation and energy. "What specific steps do the President and Congress plan to take about inflation?" asked Selig Bernstein of Chatham. The shirt-sleeved Senator drew chuckles by replying: "If I were king and I controlled the world, inflation would be easy...
...Rizzo, 13 officers have been killed in the line of duty since 1971. The Justice Department in the past five years has investigated 210 complaints of police brutality in Philadelphia. Last year a delegation of the city's black leaders pleaded with then Attorney General Griffin Bell to take stronger action. On his orders, the department's Civil Rights Division opened an investigation that continued for eight months, culminating in last week's suit...
...Boston, car thefts for the first three months of this year were up 44% over the same period last year. In New York City, police estimate that one-third of all auto thefts involve insurance fraud. At the same time, police believe that owners of fuel-efficient cars should take extra precautions against thieves. Said New York City Detective Philip Crepeau: "Like anybody else, the thieves go where the market...
Since Elvis Presley's death two years ago, fans have flocked to Memphis to pay their respects and take home souvenir T shirts, records, statuettes and posters. Now Memphis Dry Cleaner William Carwile is trying to clean up on a new relic: chips off the old burial block...
There were shortcomings and pitfalls, little recognized when Keynesianism was flourishing a decade and more ago. One shortcoming was the Keynesian assumption that supply would simply take care of itself once demand was stimulated. So long as inflation stayed low, that is in fact what happened. Even modest increases in consumer demand would bring quick jumps in output. So productive were U .S. plants and factories that they not only filled the needs of the nation's domestic market but also deluged the world with material abundance...