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Word: wrights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Solow, one of the most expansion-minded of the New Economists, confessed: "Until now, I have been against any tax increases. I have come to change my mind in the last month." This week even Democrats on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee-headed by Easy-Money Advocate Wright Patman of Texas-plan to issue a report calling for stand-by tax increases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Time to Touch the Brakes | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...first period with B.U. a man short. The lead stood up for about six minutes until B.U.'s Maxwell Gruy stuffed in a rebound of his own shot. B.U.'s second penalty cost them as heavily as the first: Pete Haley broke the tie four seconds after Ed Wright entered...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Johnson's Goal in Last 15 Seconds Topples B.U. Freshman Sextet, 6-5 | 3/2/1966 | See Source »

...decided to top off his entry into a previously white school by going out for the football team (a recent letter from him says they use him very effectively as a decoy.) Two others, bitter and undirected since going to jail in 1963, say that discussing Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Langston Hughes has given them a clearer conception of themselves and their future goals. They are both anxious to go to college...

Author: By Donald R. Moore, | Title: Summer School Succeeds in S. Carolina | 3/1/1966 | See Source »

...business. General Electric has set up Tempo (Technical Management Planning Organization) in Santa Barbara, where 200 physical scientists, sociologists, economists and engineers contemplate the future on a budget that tops $7,000,000 a year. The armed forces have long been in the future business. The Air Force, at Wright-Patterson A.F.B., conducts studies of the whole problem of scientific prediction, also contributes $15 million a year to Santa Monica's Rand Corp. to think-and not necessarily about weapons systems. The nonprofit Hudson Institute investigates the possibilities of war and peace along with the future in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE FUTURISTS: Looking Toward A.D. 2000 | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...Days to Object. Caught between an outraged chairman and an angry majority, House Speaker John McCormack worked out a compromise. The bill could be reported out, he ordered, but only in proper style and session, and with the chairman's name on it. "Sometimes," grumped Wright Patman as he went through the motions, "we have to take something that is considered bad in order to keep from taking something worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Government: How Not to Get Married | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

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