Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after eleven long years, the zeal to build a brave new India is cooling. The national leadership, from Nehru down to the lowliest babu, seems more tired than inspired. The ruling Congress Party politicos, in their 60s and 70s, seem reluctant to make way for younger men. Corruption, cynicism and maladministration have dulled the nation's spirit. India still produces more babies than it does food to feed them. (Its population increases at the rate of about 5,000,000 a year, nullifying all gains in agricultural productivity.) Money that could help prop the economy goes into the military...
...Andrés Galvan, the 65-lb. shortstop, homered over the center-field fence in the second inning, and Monterrey had six runs before Kankakee even got a base runner. Torres had a no-hitter for four innings, a shutout for five. Backed by four homers, he struck out eleven in the six-inning game, coasted to a 10-1 victory. The world champs trooped happily off to the five and ten on a shopping spree, hoped that any promises made would be kept this time...
...wide program of student loans of up to $1,000 annually for five years (repayable by eleven years after graduation). Cost: $295 million altogether for the next four fiscal years. Special consideration will be given to students who want to teach in elementary or secondary schools, and to students with superior background in or capacity for science, mathematics, engineering or a modern foreign language. Half the sum of loans will be forgiven to students who teach for at least five years...
Body Damage. The U.N. scientists pinpointed the added significance of nuclear fallout. They found least long-range danger from that which swirls through the troposphere (the part of the atmosphere that goes seven to eleven miles up) for several months before falling. At most, its short-lived isotopes raise annual external marrow and gonad dosage by .0005 rem. But the higher stratosphere (beyond eleven miles) is a reservoir of long-lived isotopes that fall for many years. Chief dangers...
...that Economist Reierson was talking about. Deciding that it was time once again to lean gently against the economic winds. FRB gave the San Francisco Reserve Bank permission to hike its discount rate from 1¾% to 2%, the first such credit-tightening boost in eight months. The other eleven Federal Reserve banks will probably follow suit soon, thus signaling that 1) the Fed agrees that the recession is over, and 2) it is on guard to make certain that the recovery proceeds in a sound, orderly fashion...