Word: chartes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What has been art's course in the decade since World War II? Future historians may be able to chart it neatly. Contemporaries cannot, for most art of any age is chaff which only the winds of time winnow away. But by the same token, the living can see more of today's art, good and bad. than future historians ever will. Last week the work of close to a thousand postwar artists was on view in New York City alone. The spring downpour of big survey exhibitions offered a new and broad perspective of contemporary...
About 3% of U.S. taxpayers earn $10,000 or more a year. Yet this small slice of the tax economy carries 36% of the nation's income-tax burden (see chart). Some high-salaried executives, C.E.D. suggests, have lost incentive because "what is left after taxes is not worth the effort." The C.E.D. thinks that "high rates of taxes make it more difficult for the individual to accumulate funds for investment, thus penalizing small business, [which] ordinarily can make use of outside financing only at excessive cost . . . The objective of this type of reduction would be to stimulate investment...
...tension and predictions of war rise in the Straits of Formosa, the United States finds it increasingly difficult to chart a realistic and honorable settlement. No statements about hope for peace--no matter how much they reassure the United States public and ease the immediate crisis--can cover up basic contradictions in U.S. Far Eastern policy. For the United States is at once attempting to support Chiang Kai-shek militarily, to keep the Western alliance together, and to negotiate a "modus vivendi"--to use the President phrase--with Communist China...
...steam-generated power stations. For the government has supplied all the technological research, and it will inevitably maintain sole responsibility for delivery of nuclear fuel to power stations, and disposal of the lethal, radio-active ashes. With the governmental hand so heavy at the helm, it is time to chart the course of industrial development. Atoms for Peace offers no guidance in plotting the atomic future...
General Education Ahf, which has led every year since its creation, has not been considered in the popularity chart because it is a required course...