Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crane left the city in a mass of confusion. His short-sighted policies, designed for immediate growth, no matter what cost, and for low taxes, ignored a crucial housing shortage and a dearth of blue collar jobs. His alliance with James Killian brought in public sector jobs and suburban white collar research work. But the land where these jobs were located was tax-exempt, of little value to the tax base...
Just as the baby boom caused a number of dislocations, the birth dearth, following so soon in its wake, is beginning to have a troublesome impact on many parts of society. Many hospital maternity wards, opened or expanded in anticipation of a further population explosion, now have nearly empty nurseries. Last year maternity wards in New York's Nassau County hospitals had an occupancy rate of only 51%. Two New York City hospitals, Doctors and LeRoy, have already shut down their maternity wards, and another plans to do so. Three Los Angeles hospitals are considering similar action following...
Most experts assume that Z.P.G., if it indeed arrives, will be an age of abundance for many Americans. A slowing of growth has meant relative affluence for Sweden and West Germany. Population Analyst Ben Wattenberg, in his book The Real America (TIME, Sept. 2), declares: "The birth dearth may well prove to be the single most important agent of a massive expansion and a massive economic upgrading of the already massive majority middle class...
Willie, because of his dearth of real lines and because he is hidden from sight for so much of the play, is also a hard subject to bring to life, and Dan Strickler never quite rises to the challenge. Willie's desperateness is vital to the play, but Strickler, who has a fine moment as he climbs up toward Winnie at the end, mugs the character rather than really acting him. Willie is also costumed terribly, looking more like Bozo the Clown than a human being worthy of serious consideration...
...cosmologist Erich von Däniken conjures up primordial heroes from the plain of Nazca and the temples of Palenque ?extraterrestrial astronauts who strayed to this planet long ago and then vanished. Today heroes and leaders bred on the earth seem almost as scarce. "There is a very obvious dearth of people who seem able to supply convincing answers, or even point to directions toward solutions," says Harvard President Derek Bok. "Leadership," observes Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti, "is one of those things you don't know you need until you don't have...