Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public confidence in the ability of economists to guide government to uninterrupted propserity was so high that the Nobel committee in Stockholm created an annual prize in the field. 1970 was the end of the so-called "Go-Go" years on the stock market, when anyone could make a buck, gasoline was still 35 cents a gallon, there was little unemployment and low inflation. Government could anything...
...politicians often couldn't apply traditional economic prescriptions because the results would threaten their political survival. And the few times they did apply these remedies, they didn't work. So policymakers have tried to reduce government's interference in the economy, in the hope that free-play of the market forces would revitalize it. But democratic government cannot force painful adjustments upon a populace determined to always have more, not to speak of doing with less. The Americans bailed out Chrysler and the British saved their national steel industry...
...endowment's $104 million rise in market value followed a $16.9 million drop the previous year. "However, the endowment is up only 8.6 per cent in a year in which the Consumer Price Index increased by 11.3 per cent. You may draw your own conclusions," George Putnam, University treasurer, said last month...