Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a program in a basic industry like steel, Fairless declared, would set a pattern which would undermine the theory of all the hundreds of contributory plans in the U.S. Furthermore, a national pattern of noncontributory programs "would be a fourth round of employee benefits dressed in different clothes." Such a program would cost the steel industry about $200 million a year and would lift the cost of steel, Fairless added significantly, as much...
...question was as complex as India's linguistic makeup. Its solution was basic to the building of a modern cohesive state out of disparate parts. The nation of Gandhi and Nehru has no majority tongue. Some 41% of its people speak Hindi. Another 14% speak Marathi, Gujarati, Kashmiri and Punjabi-all closely related to Hindi. Some 32% speak Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Kannada and Assamese. The remaining 13% speak miscellaneous dialects...
...flop with the Tudor planes which had cost British taxpayers an estimated $28 to $40 million. As far back as 1942, the government had put grizzled Baron Brabazon of Tara (who holds Britain's Pilot License No. 1) at the head of a committee which mapped out five basic postwar types to go after the world plane market. Last week prototypes of all but one (which was never started) were at the order-taking stage...
...There is a crying need for a few basic studies dealing in detail with the whole economy," Waugh stated. The machine, he continued, will enable us to make such extensive analysis because for the first time it will be possible to take into account the thousands of variables that influence the economy...
...This . . . point of interest finds parallels in, for instance, weather prediction or even in cosmology, where the basic difficulty is rather a mechanical one--arising from the degree of appropriateness of the mathematical system applied and the onerousness of using it, granted data which are sufficient. Beyond this is the second focus of interest, essentially more attractive and more stimulating. It centers upon the possibility of creating models of individual biological processes. Such models, both mathematical and material, have of course played a considerable role in general physiology,--as aids to the clarification and the concreteness of thinking...