Word: charting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went over the organization chart, Regan pointed out that the department is oriented toward dealing with a large number of transients. Because Cambridge is bounded on all sides by college and university communities- M.I.T., B.U., Tufts, and Harvard- there is an inordinate amount of movement in and out of the city. The situation is complicated because large centers of student activity invariably attract outside groups and hangers...
Economist Keiji Sakamoto puts it an other way. "If the U.S. produced a chart of where it wants Japan to go in the coming years," he says, "Japan would accept it. But whether it would follow an the chart is expression: another 'Dosho imu'?Same matter. ? We Same have bed, different dreams...
...communities had fluorides in their water supplies, deposited by nature in the soils through which the waters flow. The value of man's imitating nature was soon apparent in the Grand Rapids experiment, which showed a dramatic reduction in the number of children's cavities (see chart). With that and similar proof from Newburgh, the campaign for nationwide fluoridation began. Despite diehard opposition, it has now progressed to the point where 43% of the total U.S. population has this anticavity protection...
Boorstin leaves us with a vivid picture of the "vague, attenuated, switchable" nature of modern society-a society which rests on assumptions and expectations which tacitly moderate social behavior. In a society whose opinions are at least partiaily manufactured by the agencies which supposedly chart opinion, the desire to initiate thought has been replaced by a vague but far-reaching impulse to think alike. The voluntary aspect of government by consent has been voluntarily subordinated to the needs and demands of "government by standard of living...
...biosphere (see chart, page 59) is an extraordinarily thin global envelope that sustains the only known life in the universe. At least 400 million years ago, some primeval accident allowed plant life to enrich the atmosphere to a life-supporting mixture of 20% oxygen, plus nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide and water vapor. With uncanny precision, the mixture was then maintained by plants, animals and bacteria, which used and returned the gases at equal rates. The result is a closed system, a balanced cycle in which nothing is wasted and everything counts...