Word: faster
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...role of the Federal Govern ment in the management of the nation's economy. Democrats have switched from depression-born bread-and-butter issues to "jam-and-jelly" issues on how the U.S. should live with its prosperity. As they see it, the Government should intervene to promote faster "growth" and shift resources from private spending to the "public sector." Nixon dismisses the idea of set ting a specific national growth-rate goal as mere "growthmanship," urges tax reform, and a chance for the time-tested U.S. free enterprise economy to grow without Government controls...
...their precampaign jabbing at the Administration record, Democrats were getting some welcome help from the sidelines. Big-time newspaper pundits sniped at the Administration's recent foreign-policy embarrassments (see PRESS). New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, as outspoken an advocate of faster "growth" as any Democrat, warned that the "relative military power of the U.S. as compared with the Soviet Union has steadily and drastically declined over the past 15 years" and called for a $3.5 billion boost in the next defense budget...
...fact that a tiny amount of uranium is dissolved in all sea water. When it slowly decays radioactively, it yields protoactinium 231 and thorium 230, both of which attach themselves to sediment particles and sink slowly to the bottom. There they in turn decay, but protoactinium 231 decays faster than thorium 230. The age of sediment on the ocean floor can therefore be determined by measuring the relative abundance of the two isotopes...
...have a natural tendency to grow at a rate of between 3.5% and 4% a year. This is quite sufficient to produce a rising standard of living and whatever resources for the government we feel are necessary. The Soviets may or may not continue to grow at a somewhat faster rate. But the prospects of their 'catching up' to us in total output of goods and services by 1970-or 1980 or 1990-are dim indeed. If the United States averages 4% during the present decade-and the Soviets maintain their recent pace of perhaps...
COMECON claims that all Eastern economies are growing faster than those of Western Europe. They should, because they started from so much farther back. And they still have a long way to go, though the Reds sometimes sally spectacularly at economic targets of opportunity, e.g., when Russia tries to capture Nasser's economy by offering to build the billion-dollar Aswan Dam for him. Communist-bloc imports and exports still make up less than 10% of world trade...