Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year campaign to build 6,000,000 new low-and middle-income housing units, twelve times as many as were built during the past decade...
...give up our trip to the moon and build some hospitals? Give up our voyage to Mars and buy some beds and equipment. Let's leave Saturn alone for awhile and train more nurses. Let's have more doctors, more schools, more colleges, more teachers. Why not take care of us here on earth first and then investigate whether the Martians like vanilla or chocolate ice cream...
...intellect. For this reason, he is less assured when he traces the transparent architecture of Mozart and Bach, or unfolds the subtle poetry of Schubert. Yet these are not fatal flaws in a conductor of his age. What is important is that he has the right foundation to build on. The visceral spark is primary; the intellect and poetry can come later. Without the root intuition, the other qualities would never fully bloom...
...French Composer Pierre Boulez, 42, has the punctilious Gallic virtues: rhythmic deftness, a feeling for nuance, pointillistic detail. In compositions from Debussy through Anton Webern to Boulez, few conductors can equal his idiomatic mastery of bristling complexity and tangy dissonance. He probably never will build a repertory of the standard war horses; as a freelance conductor, he remains a self-confessed dilettante who works "entirely for pleasure...
...proposed G.M.-Ford-Chrysler pact provided that the nonstruck companies would do their best to reimburse a struck rival for up to 40% of its lost production. Were Chrysler to be struck, for example, G.M. and Ford would go into Saturday overtime production to build 12,000 cars (or 40% of Chrysler's weekly production). After the first week of the strike, they would then pay Chrysler $500 per Saturday-overtime car, or $6,000,000 each week. Had the pact been implemented, Ford, which was the only company to be struck during the 1967 negotiations, could have picked...