Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Work. The inflation, however, should diminish somewhat by midyear and the overall increase in the consumer price index, as a result, will be about 3.4%. Steadier prices plus high employment-but with younger unskilled workers a drug on the market-could put the consumer in a spending mood, depending on tax increases. Consumer spending on goods and services will increase during the year, with the greatest increase-7.5% to an average $218 billion-again in the service area. Housing expenditures should reach about $27 billion by the fourth quarter, or roughly the same as last year, but could go higher...
...Kremlin went easy on its discontented intellectuals during the preliminaries for its 50th anniversary fete, unwilling to court unfavorable publicity abroad. Now that the celebration is over, it has resumed dragging the more restive ones through the courts. To its surprise and consternation, the younger writers and their educated circle of friends are stubbornly resisting the regime's pressures-sticking together, chiding their doctrinaire and bureaucratic elders, and risking jail or worse to win more freedom. To the Kremlin's embarrassment, the grandson of Old Bolshevik Maksim Litvinov, Stalin's Foreign Minister from...
...promotion, or the possible publication of his work (all the publishing houses are state-owned). If he cooperates, he may win appointment to the board of a prestigious journal or get a luxury apartment in the Moscow suburbs. Though the regime has made dissent highly unprofitable, many of the younger writers still seem to feel that the price of resistance is indeed well worth paying...
...stock (worth $58 million) but is also one of the biggest single stockholders in ITT, has been incapacitated since a stroke last spring. To succeed him as chairman, Alleghany's board chose Son Fred Kirby, 48, who had been an executive vice president. There was no upheaval, Fred and Younger Brother Allan Jr., a vice president, urged Ireland to stay on, but Ireland clearly felt that much of the ginger had departed with Allan Sr. He confided a desire to move on to Friend Hal Geneen last fall. Replied Geneen, who knows a good acquisition when he sees...
...concert. Now at 39, he has slowly but persistently emerged as the top American pianist in his age group. His plat form manner is nononsense, but at the peak of his form he stirs poetry, fire and steel into whatever he plays. At a time when most younger American per formers make their loudest noise in the flashier side of the repertory -Prokofiev, Bartok, Liszt and the more extroverted Chopin - Graffman has matured into a musician able to challenge Europe's best in the more substantial classical and early romantic repertory...