Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free enterprise system. But much of the rising confidence in the ability of the U.S. to break "cyclical patterns and maintain its prosperity rests on Johnson's own demonstrated talent for creating the conditions under which the free enterprise system can function most efficiently. He appreciates the vital distinction between Government action which stimulates the economy and that which stifles it. In meshing the disparate parts of the highly complex system, he would rather coax than coerce. Johnson has earned the trust of both busi ness and labor. He may overestimate the seriousness of unemployment; it now totals about...
...Vital Margin." For such progress, the President credited the basic virtues of the free-enterprise system. "No planned economy," he said, "can have the flexibility and adaptability that flow from the voluntary response of workers, consumers and managements to the shifting financial incentives provided by free markets." He rejected the "idea that economic stimulation can come only from a rapid expansion of federal spending...
...meeting of her home state's Press Association to complain about the way newsmen had treated her. In reporting the Senate investigations last year, she said, they resorted to "innuendoes" not "facts" to "assassinate the character of me." She was particularly riled at TIME for reporting her obviously vital statistics as 35-26-35. "That burns me up," she sniffed. "I'm not that big." Well? Oh no, you don't, said Carole, telling only that she has taken off 10 Ibs. since the hearings...
...suggestion that perhaps the U.S. has overextended itself, that it is trying to do too much, that its power is spread too thin across the world. The notion was recently advanced by Columnist Walter Lippmann, who deplored "scatteration" of U.S. resources and suggested that the U.S. concentrate on the "vital" areas of Europe and the Americas, and more or less ignore Asia and Africa. The notion that it may be in the U.S.'s "self-interest" to retrench crosses both party and ideological lines...
...sparkling exception to the rule is Minneapolis' Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. headquarters. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki (TIME cover, Jan. 18, 1963) and inaugurated last week, it not only makes peace with the city's complex grid, but frames a vital view into the city's 24-block Gateway Center redevelopment project...