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...meeting the Depression which crashed down upon the country in the fall of 1929. On his orders a potent army of industrialists, railmen, motormen, bankers, manufacturers, public utilitarians and labor leaders marched to the White House where they pledged "business-as-usual." More public works were planned to absorb unemployment. Private companies were urged to go in heavily for new construction. Income taxes were cut 1% to spur economic recovery...
...early education itself really desirable? Does the discovery that a young child can absorb large quantities of knowledge require that it be stuffed like a Strasbourg goose? There were social reasons for launching Project Head Start in the 1960s to get poor children into preschool programs. Most psychologists engaged in the new research, however, are strongly opposed to any formal schooling before the age of three or four, even if the child is capable of it. "We know that babies are coming into the world with a lot more sophisticated skills than we had previously thought...
...existing staff--a move that has prompted some grumbling that the quickly growing K-School has begun to cut costs too much. Champion said yesterday that the K-School is trying to keep a lean operation with as few people as possible, but added that the school could absorb the growth without expanding its staff much...
...physicists try to send more protons racing around the track at higher and higher speeds, increasing the power of these little bullets becomes considerably more difficult. They absorb more energy, become more massive, and the number of electrical pulses required to accelerate the protons rises sharply. It also takes increasingly powerful magnets to keep the speeding protons from flying off their curving pathway. Even though Fermilab operated only six months last year, its electric bill ran to $12 million...
...understand what the customer wants," says Stuart Madnick, a professor of management-information systems at M.I.T.'s Sloan School. "Often the customer didn't need or want the more advanced technology that others have produced. In many companies the technology has grown faster than the market can absorb...