Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joined the civil service in 1929 as a tax collector. Next to Wilson, "Stoker Jim" Callaghan is the party's most skilled parliamentary debater, and though virtually self-taught in economics, he has a sound grasp of world finance. He has shown he can work well in tandem with Wilson, who plainly expects to be pretty much his own Chancellor...
Goldwater turned up on Capitol Hill for only one session during the week and surprised no one by voting against the Johnson Administration's poverty bill. He was already on record in a scathing Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee minority report, drafted in tandem with Texas Republican John Tower that labeled the poverty bill "an attempt to reap political rewards," and he accused Johnson of trying to sell "almost exact replicas of programs that were tried by the New Deal during the Depression...
...openers, the company staged its pièce de résistance, a robust rendering of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, followed by a lavish, streamlined Swan Lake featuring nothing less than the reigning tandem of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, who had volunteered their services and spent one week of intensive rehearsals mastering the myriad refinements of Cranko's interpretation. But the creation that stirred the most frenetic response from the crowd was the première of a handsomely preened and plumed production of Stravinsky's Fire Bird, grounded in the Fokine tradition but soaring...
...Rare Tandem. Some business leaders believe that the U.S. may be able to moderate the cycle well enough to avoid sharp recessions altogether. That would take intelligent Government policy, economic sophistication, and some luck-all of which the U.S. economy has enjoyed in recent months. Both Government and business, working in rare tandem, have shown an increasing ability to keep the economy rising. Several economists call the current recovery "the managed expansion...
...people. One of the big worries of labor leaders and economists has been that automation gains might enable a strong economic advance-like the present one-to surge forward without creating any new jobs. Last week that worry was at least partially dispelled by two new statistics operating in tandem...