Word: wringer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other extreme, some economists argue for "putting the economy through the wringer"?depressing demand enough to bring prices down, at whatever cost in unemployment. That is no answer at all; in the U.S., a 12% to 13% jobless rate for up to a year might be required to bring inflation down to an annual pace of about 2%, and the human suffering caused would be greater than...
Changes in demography and society have also put the U.S. through a budgetary wringer. Population growth has brought a more than proportional increase in the need for public services. A more crowded society multiplies demands for housing, parks, garbage collection and police protection. A skewed demographic pattern also has pressed a relatively small working and taxpaying population into paying for the medical, educational and welfare requirements of rapidly rising numbers of the very young and the very old. During the 1960s, the number of people aged five to 24 rose 28%, and the number aged 65 or over increased...
...think that he has ended Viet Nam as an issue. Have we fulfilled our responsibilities if the violence continues? On the economy, all we have is a blueprint of a plan?Phase II. There are many pieces still to be filled in. Nixon has put the economy through the wringer. Things were bad in 1969, they grew worse in 1970, and now in 1971 we have the freeze and Phase II. I hope it works; I think it may. But no amount of rhetoric can mask the fact that the Administration should have acted long...
...Eleanor's Uncle Vallie, only 25, was a mean, unpredictable drunk who, among other things, took potshots at people walking on the grounds. Unsteady of aim, he always missed, but such pastimes made daily life harrowing. Eleanor befriended the laundress and spent hours in the cellar cranking the wringer and learning how to iron...
...WRINGER WASHING MACHINES. More than 100,000 people are injured by such wringers each year. Not long ago, for example, a mother in Columbus, Ohio, found her three-year-old daughter strangled by a wringer. The industry has finally begun to install a device that releases the rollers when there is a tug in the opposite direction. Millions of older washers have no such equipment...