Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deficit of more than $4 billion still looms if spending stays at this year's level of $79.2 billion. And the pressures on spending are upward, not downward: the fantastically elaborate military hardware of the missile age keeps getting costlier, each international crisis makes defense cuts harder, and demand for Government services keeps spreading...
James S. Duesenberry, professor of Economics, considering the unemployment aspect of the recession, felt that the present recovery trends will not be sufficient to bring unemployment below four percent. He stated that "there is no justification for basing all our policy on the assumption that excess demand is going to develop...
...Three billion dollars," predicts Professor Seymour Harris, "will have to come from increased tuition rates in the next decade, if universities are to survive." How Harvard and the rest can meet this demand, with inflation shrinking endowment assets at the same time that alumni contributions diminish, is a problem Harris has attempted to solve in his plan for a long term student loan program...
...There are more people in the world than ever before, and a far greater part of them want an education," writes Professor B. F. Skinner, in a recent issue of Science magazine. "The demand cannot be met simply by building more schools and training more teachers. Education must become more efficient...
Whether or not the teaching machines, in a generation or so, will become a major weapon in winning the battle for western technological supremacy; whether or not they will someday help equalize the supply of teachers with the demand; certainly that row of ten silent machines in Sever Hall is a harbinger of a nervous and not too brave new world.Pictures courteous of Psychological LaboratoriesThe Self-Instruction Room in Sever Hall. There are ten booths holding the teaching machines, some outfitted with indexing phonographs...