Word: leveled
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Force's steel-nerved Captain Joseph W. Kittinger Jr. has spent more time up in the atmosphere's cold, thin-aired outer reaches than any man alive. Three years ago, to test body reactions at high altitudes, Kittinger rode a gondola to 96,000 ft. above sea level. Twice he has made record parachute jumps of more than 70,000 ft. Last week red-haired Joe Kittinger, 32, shattered his own marks for both going up and coming down...
...steady but unexciting pace, the FRB has been criticized for reining credit too tightly. While industrial production is affected by factors other than the discount rate, there is a notable correlation between the two (see charts). When credit tightens and the discount rate is increased, production tends to level off or diminish; after credit eases, production tends to rise because more and cheaper money encourages businessmen to expand...
...craving for enough food for his family, a decent house, an education and medicine. A month ago Latin Americans cheered the announcement from the summer White House at Newport that the U.S. at long last was ready to start a big program of loans for social needs. A high-level team of U.S. loan experts arrived in Peru almost immediately to sign a $2,000,000 U.S. housing loan (the U.S.'s first for housing) and to work out details for $53.2 million more in loans aimed at direct help to people...
...sharpest manifestation, the virus sets off an encephalitis (brain inflammation) so severe that it may cause death -or, worse, such sweeping damage that the victim survives only as an idiot or at the level of a vegetable. How many such cases there are is not known...
...even mentions a year--1963--by which it plans to see at least first-step compliance with the Supreme Court's integration ruling in every affected school district. The foreign policy plank is made of equally stout stuff, giving the singularly honest assurance that "if meetings at high level offer prospects of success, we will be there...