Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swamps as a strange kind of river, less than a foot deep and up to 50 miles wide. Changes in the water's quality, quantity and seasonal rhythms endanger the park's incredibly diverse plants and wildlife. And yet, for the past two decades, nearby flood-control projects have steadily dehydrated the glades by diverting water to crop land, commercial and industrial use. The Everglades, explains Park Superintendent Jack Raftery, "is a demonstration that no natural region can be divorced from its surroundings...
Secure in the knowledge that he can always look forward to hearing another beep, the smoker can control himself between signals. But soon the friendly beeper - triggered by radio signals sent out by the telephone company - lets him down, slowly decreasing his consumption by four cigarettes each week. The decrease is so gradual that withdrawal symptoms are minimal...
...overwhelming consensus among politicians, economists and demographers is that the population explosion should be checked by making birth control devices and counseling more widely available, particularly to poor people. Nonsense, says a scientist writing in the British journal, New Society. According to Peter J. Smith, a lecturer in geophysics at the University of Liverpool, the problem - at least in the U.S. -is not lack of birth control but excess desire for children...
...number of children considered ideal by non-Catholic American women has always been more than two. Well-educated, middle-and upper-class women usually want fewer children than poor women. But "on the average, all parents desire more children than the number required to maintain the population equilibrium." Birth control devices are already widely available to all but a tiny fraction of U.S. citizens. Smith declares, but -really effective population control cannot be achieved until there is a change in society's attitude toward procreation. As things now stand, social and institutional pressures tend to stigmatize the childless couple...
Treasury Under Secretary Paul Volcker last week called the deficit "one cost" of inflation, which raises U.S. export prices and sucks in low-priced imports. To control inflation sufficiently to restore a trade surplus, he added, will take "years rather than months...