Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unless Britain tightens its belt still further, by holding wage increases down while the price of imports bought in minipounds rises, the gains of devaluation will be dissipated by inflation. Though the giant Transport and General Workers' Union agreed to go along with a voluntary pay freeze, the striking dock workers refused to go back to work last week. There were also undisguised rumblings for bigger pay packets from the rank and file that may make it difficult for Wilson to hold the line on wage increases...
Ever since University of Iowa Physicist James Van Allen discovered the earth-circling belts of radiation that bear his name, scientists have been trying to answer a simple but perplexing question: How do the electrons and protons that are trapped in the outer belt get there in the first place? Now, summarizing data he and other scientists have obtained from a host of recent satellites, Van Allen himself has reported a possible answer. At a meeting of the American Physical Society in Manhattan, he suggested that the charged particles are drawn into the belt by a high voltage generated across...
...ironic that Gatto should succeed Clasby, Harvard's all-time career rushing leader with 1820 yards. Gatto, now in fourth place in career rushing behind Clasby, Bobby Leo, and Chet Bouiris '61, will be trying to eclipse that mark next year. With 1452 yards under his belt already, he will almost certainly succeed...
Britain's endemic deficits are usually largest in times of expansion, when Britons, fully employed and flush with cash, step up their purchases of goods from abroad. This time, however, Britain is in the trough of a government-imposed slowdown now 18 months old, a belt-tightening period of austerity imposed by Wilson's government after another sterling crisis...
...whole point of the Model Cities program is to preserve the kind of neighborhood the Inner Belt will destroy. The Belt is currently undergoing a major reassessment. If it is allowed to go through along its present Brookline-Elm St. route, with all of the disruption of families which that will entail, the Model Cities program could be reduced to a mere patching operation. The Model Cities grant provides yet another argument in the overwhelming case against the Inner Belt and its Brookline-Elm St. route...