Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Growth rates are at present a matter of controversy. They should be scientifically determined. The decay rate of radium is well established. At last we can point with pride to the national debt and say it is going down, its half-life pegged, not to the vagaries of partisan politics, but to the immutable laws of nature. The debt ceiling too would be beyond the reach of legislation, limited only by the critical mass of the uranium at Fort Knox...
...hours are granted, many 'Cliffies hoped that they would be permitted to use their room doors when they entertained. Under the present system, doors must be kept open...
...American economy continues to grow at the present rate of about three-and-a-half per cent a year, the Soviets will probably catch up to the United States in the 1980's, Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, predicted at the Hillel Round Table of World Affairs yesterday...
...criticized the optimism of political campaigners, which he believes is based on a misunderstanding of the facts. Because retarding and accelerating growth factors in the Russian economy will tend to cancel each other out in the future, Bergson predicted that the Soviet Union will continue to grow at its present rate of seven per cent a year...
...turning down needed aid for depressed areas. He defended his celebrated claim that "17 million Americans go to bed hungry" by shifting to Secretary of Agriculture Benson's statement that 25 million Americans have inadequate diets. A tax increase in the winter of 1961, Kennedy said, "under present economic conditions," would not be "desirable. In fact, it would be deflationary . . . cause a real slowdown in our economy...