Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doggedly that recapturing the rural experience is essential to the "renewal of life" which he envisions for this country. To this end, he envisions an ideal pattern for future societies: a polynuclear, regional development of moderate size cities, each surrounded by green belts devoted only to agriculture. The central core would combine industry, residential areas, and cultural facilities. Beyond the green belt would lie untouched countryside...
...inflation - has increased by one-third. So has his productivity: 7% of American workers now produce all the nation's food and manufactured goods. Yet unemployment has steadily declined, until it is now at the lowest point in 15 years. While the U.S. worries about the hard core of "unemployables," it has a limitless demand for new skills. In the new information industry, the computer and related fields, 1,000,000 programmers will be needed in the next six years (v. 200,000 now so employed). Most of the economic targets of the '60s have been achieved...
...billion or $5 billion a year. To make supplementary compensatory grants for the education of poor children wholly effective would require $3 billion. Nixon assured Henry Ford of his support for the on-the-job training administered by private industry; a three-year program for 1,500,000 hard-core unemployed would cost the Treasury $1.5 billion per year. As for reforming or replacing the welfare system, the estimates for the various income maintenance schemes that have been proposed run as high as $30 billion per year...
...recent decades, even though it stirred comment for including no Negro or Jew. But people sense about Nixon's appointments, and his style, a tone of reassuring Wasp respectability and good manners. The forces that elected Nixon-those who most avidlv supported him-are Wasp to the core; the "ethnic blocs" voted for Humphrey. With Nixon's accession, noted Norman Mailer, it is "possible, even likely, even necessary that the Wasp enter the center of our history again...
...anyone who knows that methadone itself is an addicting drug, the immediate and inevitable question is: Why is it being given to these real (but fictitiously named) drug addicts? Many reputable physicians have despaired of getting any substantial number of hard core heroin addicts to kick the habit even after long-term confinement and psychiatric treatment - 80% to 90% soon relapse. So the doctors have concluded that the best thing to do is to fight fire with fire...