Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, was the decision to raise basic industrial prices. For years the prices of coal, steel, gas and fuel oil have been kept far below cost in order to forge a heavy industrial base. Now that Russia can afford to ogle the age of affluence, it needs not rigid central planning but the flexibility of a market economy using such Western techniques as profits to measure performance and buyers' wants to dictate output. Kosygin has promised to switch all Russian enterprise away from rigid central planning by 1968. Already 673 firms employing some 2,000,000 workers have made...
...Orange (Lillet vermouth, soda, a slice of orange), the Americano (Campari, Cinzano dry vermouth, soda) or just plain Campari and soda. Sangria, a Spanish punch combining red or white wine with fruit syrup and seltzer, has made a host of converts at Manhattan's new Fountain Cafe in Central Park. And, though it really caught on in Paris only this summer, a surprising number of U.S. bartenders have already learned to whip up "un Kir": a mixture of dry white wine and crème de cassis (black-currant liqueur), named for Canon Felix Kir, who also doubles...
Jewnitarian Religion? In the current issue of the Conservative United Synagogue Review, Buffalo's Rabbi Isaac Klein affirms the "central and normative role of Halakah in Judaism" but argues that Jewish law "was never intended to be frozen" and "must grow to meet new situations." In fact, as Rabbi Klein points out, Halakah has been significantly modified over the centuries, by such sages as Maimonides and Joseph Karo, in order to adapt the written Talmud to the requirements of everyday life. The Conservative branch of Judaism considers Halakah of divine origin but believes in adapting it to the times...
...running General Electric for plant-building orders, nuclear power costs have dropped so far that atomic plants in some areas come cheaper than the conventional variety. Nine years ago, the first commercial reactor at Shippingport, Pa., generated electricity for 65 mills per kwh. The Oyster Creek plant of Jersey Central Power & Light, due to open next year, is expected to run for 4 mills per kwh, as does Consolidated Edison's Indian Point plant 30 miles up the Hudson River from Manhattan. That is 33% less per kw-h than it costs Con Edison to make power from coal...
Moving with the velocity of a milk train, the proposed merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central into a single 20,000-mile system to be known as the Penn Central rickety-racked past another way station last week. Led by the Erie-Lackawanna, eight smaller Eastern railroads* had requested a three-judge federal court in New York to delay the merger's effective date. The court, by a 2-1 vote, sided with the Penn Central...