Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kick out the price props, scrap the export subsidy, and forget all about special taxes on imports-all of which would save U.S. taxpayers $365 million a year. That, plus a loosening of the stiff acreage controls that favor the small Southern cotton growers, would enable the efficiently automated bigger growers in the flatlands of the West to expand, prosper and better compete in world markets. But in Washington this was the last cotton-pickin' solution likely to be considered...
...Radio Rentals expanded into television just before World War II. Today the company has 750,000 subscribers and 310 sales offices, manufactures all its own rental sets through a subsidiary called Baird Television Ltd. With profits last year of $4,612,000, Radio Rentals is about to become even bigger by absorbing (for $4,200,000) E. D. Dawes Co., a smaller rental company with 60 outlets in the north of England...
...include both whites and Negroes. Another is the "Princeton (N.J.) Plan" of using one school for all children of perhaps three grades, using a second school for three other grades, and so on. This works well in small communities, notably in Willow Grove, Pa., but involves buses in bigger places. The Northern school dilemma, rooted in de facto segregation in housing, is the difficulty of reconciling the cause called integration with the common sense of walk-to-school...
...Litch-fieldese for uniting humanities, natural and social science as units serving all levels of the university. He weighed and tested the faculty for academic content, found one-third (250) substandard, including 16% with only a B.A. degree. The "low" men got no more raises. Today, with a 19% bigger faculty, 38% higher pay, and the first sabbaticals ever, only 42 profs are under par. The others, as one official put it succinctly, "shaped up or shipped out." Bright Image. Medicine is a Pitt strong point. But in engineering it lags behind nearby Carnegie Tech-which worries an economically troubled...
...financial hub of the world's wealthiest nation and by their nods give the stop or go sign to enterprises from Bonn to Bangkok. They wield vast powers?and yet must correctly size up situations around the world and reckon on economic and social changes bigger than their own power to control. They cannot sit still or their strength diminishes; but when they move, they must be nimble as well as sure...