Word: beanstalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into laying a spectacular $5,000,000 in coins on the table after gluttonous dinners, do you suppose he will sit down to count his fortune and let the clanking of the coins drown the noise of footsteps as Poor Laboring Jack, armed only with his ballot, climbs the beanstalk...
...near-unanimous opinion of U.S. scientists, President Nixon is ignoring what Candidate Nixon said. At a time when drastic, all-around budget trimming is obviously necessary -confronting the Administration with some painful choices-sensible scientists do not expect research appropriations to keep growing at the beanstalk rate of the early 1960s, but they have hoped to maintain reasonable, normal growth. Instead, they have suffered cutbacks and hold-downs for two years, and now the Administration has submitted a budget that, despite rising costs, will keep the level of federal spending for research virtually unchanged through June 1971. As a result...