Word: downward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notable journalistic coup was its re cent interview with the shadowy Alfred Winslow Jones, father of Wall Street's current investment sensation, the hedge fund (whose profit-at-high-risk philosophy aims at taking advantage of both upward and downward swings of the market). Touches of humorous erudition are sprinkled throughout. A regular monthly column, for example, is called "Haruspex," for the Roman soothsay ers who divined the future by poking through the entrails of sacrificial animals...
...bombing halt was frontpage news around the world. factories are operated by women. Monsoon rains and flooding made rice so scarce that prices soared to as much as ten times the official rate. At the same time that the North's military capability has skidded into a downward curve, the South's is on the upswing. According to a Pentagon study conducted by Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Alain Enthoven, South Viet Nam's armed forces along with its Regional and Popular Forces have improved enough in the past two years to equal the introduction...
Balancing Downward. Sullivan, who believes that "you can't have quality education in a multiracial society without total integration," has spent four years working to achieve that goal. When he came to Berkeley in 1964, several hundred high school students of both races were riding buses to attend the city's only high school. Sullivan immediately extended integration downward to junior high; a year later he started bussing Negro children from lower grades into white schools. When he integrated the city's nursery schools for three-and four-year-olds in 1966, he discovered that "the neighborhood...
Sold under the trade name Palm-N'-Turn, the new containers are made of plastic and topped with a flexible cap fitted with luglike projections. The lugs fit snugly into notches in the neck of the container. To open one, an adult must press downward with the palm, then twist the cap open while the lugs are free. In recent tests, few children could do this, even when they saw jelly beans inside. Of 1,000,000 of the Palm-N'-Turn containers tested in Ontario, Canada, only 21 caps were pried free...
...role of papal authority in the church. Many theologians contend that there has been an unhealthy overemphasis on the teaching voice of Rome since the definition of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council in 1870. In effect, the church has been a pyramid, with all wisdom flowing downward from the top. Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council suggested the possibility of a more democratic, decentralized concept of Catholicism. Paul-with his constant emphasis on the need for obedience, his surprisingly old-fashioned and orthodox Creed, and now his rather arbitrary decision on birth control-seems determined that...