Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brussels a hushed special session of Parliament quickly voted to send an investigatory mission. The new Minister of the Congo, Maurice van Hemelrijck, a longtime critic of Belgian complacency and the author of a long-awaited proposal for the Congo's gradual emancipation that is to be presented to Parliament this week, gave his countrymen a brief but pointed lecture. "We have been on the border of catastrophe," he said. "We are not without fault. We could not wait so long without punishment before letting the Congolese know of our intentions...
Thus, while the Program talks of "cramped quarters," it also assumes that the College must grow. Harvard, faced with the pressure for expansion and the need for deconversion, is trying to steer a moderate course of "gradual growth...
...agree with people who tell the student, 'you are overcrowded, even if you don't realize it,'" said Leighton. "The minute the students do not cast their dollar votes for more deconversion, I will be for gradual expansion...
...council's arithmetic, the future bite schedule enacted by Congress last year-providing for a gradual increase to 4½% of the first $4,800 of income by 1969-"makes adequate provision" for estimated future payments. This year OASI will pay out $9.7 billion, around $1 billion more than it takes in, but it will still have nearly $21 billion in the kitty, and from 1960 on, income is expected to exceed outgo "every year for many years into the future." The advisory council's real worry is that creeping inflation might make the payments worth disappointingly little...
...recession. Gross national product was clipping along at $453 billion annually, a new record, and industrial production was back up to 142 on FRB's index, only four points below the alltime peak. Where to in 1959? As usual, the forecasters see clearly for six months: a gradual, continuing recovery without explosive boom. Says Louis J. Paradiso, chief statistician for the Commerce Department: "1959 will be moderate. The graph will go back to saucer form. The momentum of the recovery will show a very good rate of increase in the first half, with the second half showing no acceleration...