Word: totalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pending a final tally of absentee ballots that will take another week, the Social Democrats wound up with twelve additional seats, or "mandates," for a total of 125 and their first absolute majority in the chamber since 1940. The party had not really expected such a showing. The Social Democrats had taken gloomy pre-election forecasts seriously enough to cast about for new gimmicks in a country where social reform seems to have gone about as far as it can go, and taxes about as high (in addition to income taxes averaging 30%, Swedes pay a painful 11% sales...
Krock laments the deterioration of the country's moral and political fiber, the inflation that destroys savings, the pressures toward "total integration" of blacks and whites, the introduction (by Kennedy and Johnson) of a "welfare state subsidized from Washington." He considers it an inexcusable sin that Kennedy and Johnson committed the U.S. to a land war in Asia. Above all, Krock bemoans the "transmutation" of U.S. democracy into a "judicial autocracy" in which the Supreme Court has assumed "overlordship of the government and all the people to fit the political philosophy of the current majority...
...clerical monotony, he says "Stop the wars, now." Cast members in the aisles shout back in unison, "Stop the wars, now!" He repeats the phrase half a dozen times as the audience response grows in force. Then he switches to "Freedom-now," and on through a litany of total dissent: "Ban the bombs," "Abolish police," "Change the world," "Abolish the state." This goes on far too long. The Living Theater persistently confuses duration with intensity. As the shouted responses turn the house into a kind of cathedral of the absurd, the cast moves onstage, forms a circle, and utters...
...month. That advance lifted incomes to an annual average 9% above that of the first eight months of 1967. Unemployment shrank to 3½% of the labor force, matching a 15-year low. Adding up the figures, the Commerce Department conceded last week that the gross national product-the total of everything produced in the U.S.-will show "a substantial increase" during the third quarter...
...into the huge stockpiles accumulated as a hedge against the summer strike that never came. Most steel mills are running at only half of capacity, and steelmen expect further declines before orders pick up again. As a result, the Federal Reserve Board reported last week, the nation's total industrial production fell by 1% in August...