Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heber and Garber admit that the experimental children have become "test-wise" and that the differences between the two groups could disappear as they grow older. Still, the psychologists conclude, the youngsters have accomplished so much that "it is difficult to conceive of their ever being comparable to the lagging control group...
Still, Chileans have plenty of reason to be annoyed by the growing food problems. Partly because the Allende regime has not moved forcefully enough against illegal seizures of farms by armed extremists, agricultural production has plummeted. Beef is available one week a month; poultry, eggs and other staples disappear from market shelves by midmorning. Food imports are soaring, and at the rate Allende is spending his country's foreign-exchange reserves -$20 million a month-the treasury will run dry by next spring...
...Europeans' wage advantage will not disappear for the foreseeable future. At present, for instance, the total cost of producing a metric ton of steel is $184.59 in the U.S. and $100.49 in the Common Market. But U.S. wage increases are tapering off at the same time that rising expectations in Europe are rapidly forcing up labor costs. Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, pointed out last week that U.S. labor cost per unit of output will rise only 3.5% this year v. 6.5% in 1970. That factor, plus the revaluation of currencies...
...stand SDS has made is to perpetuate racism in the name of ending it. It deserves complete condemnation. As long as people's problems are viewed as those of blacks, whites, or Chicanos, members of every race will remain prisoners of their skins. The ugliness of racism will not disappear until people refuse to consider skin color as significant of anything. In this regard, SDS has been as opposed to color-blindness as the Ku Klux Klan...
...Masters spout the kind of gems of wisdom Jodorowsky loves so well: "You shoot to find yourself. I do it in order to disappear." Or, "The heart, the head--exchange them. It's time." It all gets a little wearing after an hour...