Word: downward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of harmony is socially authoritarian-it depends on the static society, in which authority flows downward from above. Status based on skill or achievement can only be disruptive in such a world. "What do you do?" is the American conversational icebreaker; "Who are you?" is what the Asian wants to know. The Indian caste system is only the most elaborate expression of this fact; caste and status are important everywhere in Asia...
...surged back by 14.36 points for the best single day's gain in eleven months. Even now, as the Ford meeting was under way, stocks were still moving modestly upward. But hardly were the words out of Ford's mouth when the Dow-Jones went spiraling downward eight points, ended the day off 5.5 points and the week, in which there was reason to expect a real rally, up a mere...
...birth rate-yearly births per 1,000 population-began its decline in 1958, twelve years after its precipitate climb, then drifted slowly downward through '59, '60, and '61. In 1962 the curve dropped sharply and continued its steep dip through the first months of 1966. Preliminary figures for the first two months of this year show an even lower rate than for the same period in 1965. The fertility rate, which relates directly to the number of young people rather than to the population as a whole, has shown a slightly slower drop because the young, "fertile...
...years, in fact, the American birth rate has always been on the way down, an anomaly explained by the heroic childbearing habits of the founding mothers, who averaged 8.3 children each. The '40s and the '50s, according to the demographers, were simply an upward jiggle on the downward line...
...Ages. Although they acknowledged that God was ultimately unknowable, the medieval scholastics devoted page after learned page of their summas to discussions of the divine attributes?his omnipotence, immutability, perfection, eternity. Although infinitely above men, God was seen as the apex of a great pyramid of being that extended downward to the tiniest stone, the ultimate ruler of an ordered cosmos cooperatively governed by Christian church and Christian state...