Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lacks the capital, land, energy, initiative, skill, or whatever else is required to earn a U.S.-style livelihood in agriculture in competition with commercial farmers. The other problem, of course, is overproduction. The Kennedy Administration proposes to deal with it by what it calls "supply management"-that is, imposing broader and tighter curbs on farm production while keeping price supports at high levels. The alternative approach, favored by the American Farm Bureau Federation, is to gradually decrease price supports to the point where they serve as a safeguard against drastic price drops rather than as an incentive to overproduction. Production...
Businessmen have broader horizons, pursue export sales more energetically. A still small but significant factor of change is the Spanish women. More are going to universities than ever before. Man's traditional supremacy no longer goes unquestioned. Says a shrewd Spaniard: "When does a man work best? When he is pushed by women. In Spain, the women are beginning to push the men.'' Still Backward. Occasionally Franco contributes an article on economics to a Madrid journal, signing his pieces "Hispanicus," and he takes full credit for Spain's economic progress. Actually, much of the credit belongs...
Merely predicting cavity risks is nothing new. But Dr. Rapp and officials of the Chicago Dental Society believe the wax chew test will be particularly helpful. Its color changes appeal to kids and help to demonstrate the value of mouth hygiene. And if broader trials confirm the saliva test's predictive value, it will show dentists whether a child's teeth need a protective painting with a fluoride solution...
...scientist has no ultimate use for technique. That is, strictures of time keep the scientists on their side of the divide, while strictures of value are more important to the non-scientist. This suggests, that, given the chance, the science student could get more from a course with a broader outlook on science, than the non-scientist from the strictly technical course...
...something significant to say. For Radcliffe the lonely college possessed some attributes that Radcliffe the community of educational suffragettes may prove to lack. Perhaps the negative aspects of the many wise and already fruitful experiments that Mrs. Bunting has initiated are only the inevitable concomitants of progress toward a broader and deeper concept of women's education. And yet, one wonders...