Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy will rise again. Board members are unanimous in their view that since the downturn is inevitable, the sooner it occurs, the shallower, less lengthy and more effective in damping inflation it will be. Said David Grove, a consultant to IBM and other major companies: "It would be better to take our medicine quick...
Selig admits that the Administration's relations with business got off to a bad start, but insists that they have become better...
...play roulette, compute income taxes and do estate planning. Winemakers are also preparing to reap a rich harvest as the Pepsi generation trades its aluminum pop tops for corkscrews. By 1985 domestic wine is projected to be a $6 billion industry, up from $3 billion today. "Sales of the better wines can only be described as spectacular," says Alin Gruber, senior vice president of Sonoma Vineyards, "and the most important reason for it is that people who started with pop wines are moving...
...suspicious of the world than "light" viewers. Significantly more of them replied "almost always" when asked, "How often is it all right to hit someone if you're mad at them?" As to reading, Gross says, "except occasionally for the lowest IQ group who do a little better if they watch TV -because they see some printed words at least-for most children the more television the worse they do in school...
...Commissioner Newton Minow, but as a vast resource waiting to be tapped. One TV watcher who agrees is Minow himself, who now sits on the PTST board. Says he: "The most important educational institution in the country is not Harvard or Yale or Caltech-it's television." For better or for worse, it is difficult not to agree with...