Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inaccurate and misleading article that TIME has ever published. The implication that "real scientists" do not agree with Vogt's main thesis is far from the truth. It is true that Vogt has exaggerated the dangers of soil erosion, but he has underestimated the difficulties in the adequate control of population growth and the control of "moral erosion...
...demographer or biologist would deny the validity of the Malthusian Law. Malthus postulated that populations tend to increase faster than do the means of subsistence, and must be controlled by either positive checks or preventive checks. The positive checks are those which increase the death rate-famine, disease, epidemics, excessively hard labor, and war. The preventive checks are those which reduce the birth rates-celibacy, delayed marriage, "prudential restraint" in married life, and other forms of birth control. Although Malthus underestimated man's capacity to increase the means of subsistence, he did not underestimate man's capacity...
...proposed new rules state that "the basic criterion is that the publication must be a Harvard student enterprise." The editors must be Harvard students, and policy control is "to be exercised in accordance with their free decisions." Magazines without "Harvard" in their titles do not have to be financed within the Harvard community, nor does a majority of their circulation have to be in Harvard...
...United States and Great Britain have offered the French a seat on the council which will nominally supervise the trustees during the period before the Germans elect a government. This "concession' is practically an insult. The French see international control of the Ruhr going out of the window. They know that when the future German government takes over the industries--or leaves them in the hands of cartels--Germany will become the most powerful nation on the Continent, outside of Russia...
...international authority should control both production and distribution. Germans can manage plants, but Germans should not decide what those plants produce. By preparing the way for German control of Europe's greatest industrial region, the governments of the United States and Britain have greatly damaged European unity, and the concept of a cooperative Atlantic community...