Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes another knock in a report soon to be published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. After three years of analysis, a team of economists headed by Nobel Prizewinner Wassily Leontief has concluded that world resources can support a growing population well into the 21st century. Global abundance will also permit higher standards of living without destroying the environment...
...reports Jerome Bruner, 60, longtime Harvard psychologist now teaching at Oxford and author of such pioneering works as A Study of Thinking (1956) and The Process of Education (1960). In a recent address to the 21st International Congress of Psychology in Paris, Bruner challenged the popular view that infants are born egocentric and acquire language merely through some innate skill. "If you look at the child's behavior as he develops procedures of communication," said Bruner, "you cannot help but be struck by the fact that from the start the child is sociocentric. The child communicates not only because...
...City Squire Inn. When Carter became the assured winner, his workers demanded-and got-250 rooms in the much larger Americana, a flashy plastic version of Miami Beach set down on Seventh Avenue. Carter and Wife Rosalynn were assigned a five-room suite with a canopied bed on the 21st floor...
...downtrodden, etc., should have taken a look at Las Vegas last week. Even though the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is operating in the red and is raising dues for its 2.2 million members by at least 25% (to a minimum of $10 a month), the Teamsters held their 21st international convention last week far from any conceivable barricades, amid the gaudy luxuries of Las Vegas. No pikers even in hard times, the bosses pushed through a 25% pay boost for themselves. That should ease matters considerably for Teamster President Frank E. Fitzsimmons, 68, who could scarcely support a life-style...
...relations with Latin Americans, who have long resented the second-class status of Panamanians in the zone. But in return for giving up the canal and increasing payments to the Panamanian government for its use, the U.S. wants operating control at least until the beginning of the 21st century...