Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vestibule of the inner ear are two tough capsules called the utricle (from the Latin for a little womb) and the saccule (a little bag). These contain a gelatinous material in which are suspended crystals of a chalky substance composed mainly of calcium carbonate, no bigger than grains of fine sand. In the space age, physiologists are learning much more about these otoliths (ear stones), which respond to forces of gravity or acceleration. Now otolith mechanisms are known to have an im portant function. The semicircular canals tell the brain when a man's position or posture is changing...
...school in a neighborhood-but what's a neighborhood? In Chicago, which has the most sharply segregated school system of any major Northern city, a panel of experts issued a report criticizing the traditional neighborhood school for preventing integration. They urged the school board to create bigger neighborhoods that would include several schools and by open enrollment give Negro students an opportunity to attend previously all-white schools. Would this destroy the neighborhood? No, said the experts; it would simply "enlarge" the neighborhood...
...have nuclear weapons, yellow China will have delivery systems and the protection which the wide oceans provide will shrink to a ribbon narrower than that which separates white Roxbury from black Roxbury. If Malcolm X is right, then we will be doomed for the whole world will be no bigger than the island of Manhattan. The only prescription for survival is an America, a world where color does not count. Robert David Joffe...
...M.B.A., Harvard '39). The top schools include Harvard, M.I.T. and Chicago, plus Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, Stanford, U.C.L.A. and others. Such schools no longer teach business as a series of narrow, separate management skills (production, marketing, accounting). The new stress is on the Big Picture, and few schools think bigger than Carnegie Tech's Graduate School of Industrial Administration in Pittsburgh. It is the first graduate business school to stress behavioral sciences, higher mathematics electronic data processing and management simulation exercises as basic for managerial careers...
...range of a company, can run from $25,000 to $5,000,000. There is, of course, the need for new plant signs, new stationery and new bank checks bearing the company's new name, and national companies must also bear both the small legal expense and the bigger bother of reregistration in 50 states and with government agencies. Many companies, as a result, prefer to create a slim and progressive image simply by stressing their initials. That technique has worked well for such companies...