Word: widener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vacations. For all the gains that Callaghan proudly pointed to, Britain is not yet clear of some economic shoals. The government still owes another $1.4 billion to the IMF, which will come due in 1970. The trade gap is far from permanently closed. And lately it has begun to widen, largely because the U.S., on whom Britain depends to absorb its stepped-up exports, has problems of its own and is buying less. Unemployment, while leveling off some, is still 2%; the Selective Employment Tax that was supposed to force workers out of service jobs into manufacturing has plainly...
...Third we must continue and widen our initiative on these critical matters on which there is, at present, such deep dissatisfaction throughout the country...
...this country by 1970 will have directly influenced, in some way or other, over 50,000,000 people around the world. And if each one of these 50,000,000 passes along a little of his understanding to his friends and neighbors, then the circle of impact will widen beyond comprehension." Lest the mind grow dizzy at the calculations, it may be best to point out that the overwhelming majority of returned Volunteers are satisfied with what they themselves learned; as for the millenium, they appear willing to let that take care of itself
Only "Stagnation." The critical question is whether the inventory shrinkage, which is spotty so far, will widen into a sharp downtrend before easier credit and federal deficit spending again pump up business-and prices. Many economists expect the inventory gain to slip to an annual rate of about $9.5 billion during the first three months of this year. Even so, few predict anything worse for the economy than what Leon Keyserling, former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, calls "a period of stagnation." With federal, state and local government spending on the rise, with housing starting...
...reacting to rather than anticipating an event. Administration officials would have done better to acknowledge earlier on their own initiative what every military expert has long known was inevitable: that some civilians would be killed in U.S. raids. In failing to do so, they not only helped to widen the "credibility gap," which is already causing Lyndon Johnson considerable trouble at home, but enabled Hanoi to use the Salisbury reports to stir up a virulent new round of anti-Americanism from London to New Delhi. Even France's normally prudent Le Monde declared that "not a day passes...