Word: canted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real revolutionaries in Russia today are a brave band of economists who put profits and efficiency above Marxist cant. Led by Evsei Liberman (TIME cover, Feb. 12), they persuaded the Kremlin six months ago to begin sizable tests of their Western-style theories in the Soviet economy. First some 400 light-industry plants were cut loose from rigid central planning, permitted to produce whatever they thought they could profitably sell. Then heavy industry in the Lvov area was allowed to try out the new system. When factory managers and economists from 30 cities met in Moscow recently to review...
...Denver bureau, who did much of the reporting on the cover story. He is the grandson of the Dr. Beshoar who began practice in the cattle town of Trinidad in 1865, and his great-grandfather and father were surgeons as well. After finishing the cover story, Medicine Writer Gilbert Cant sent a note of congratulation to Beshoar: "TIME'S annals are full of examples of reporters who went to amazing lengths to get the facts. But I can't think of any other who assigned his grandfather to help-and 50 years before the correspondent was born...
...time he was finished, Lyndon Johnson had painted for all the nation to see a picture of a man shorn of cant, newly committed and unalterably dedicated to the civil rights cause. Long ago-as Congressman and Senator-he had been among those who manned the barricades against the Negro advance by voting against key civil rights bills. There was no question now that he was involved. In his address, he illuminated that involvement in a revealing statement by which he hoped history would judge him (see box). He strode from the chamber a changed man, confident in that hope...
...eleven hours a day. "Everything's fine with TV" he beams, "except the blasted commercials." He's not exactly sure of the time he spends studying Its regulated by the day's TV schedule, offhands. Allowing about ten hours a day for sleep and classes, it cant be much, but it is enough. Despite TV, Saleh ranks as the university's top mechanical engineering student...
...Jersey Turnpike last year, not one was wearing a seat belt. There is something else the automakers should do: place the ignition switch and the emergency brake near the middle of the dashboard, so that a front-seat passenger can reach them in case the driver is incapacitated. GILBERT CANT New York City...