Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From 1960 to 1965, U.S. productivity rose by 21%, West Germany's 29%, Italy's 40%-and Britain's only 18%. For each worker needed to produce a ton of steel in the U.S., three are needed in Britain. In manufacturing, it takes 2.52 Britons to equal the output of one Canadian, 1.89 to equal a Swede's. Yet hourly earnings in British industry grew by 33% in 1960-65-plus another 7% in manufacturing during the first three months of 1966. "More people in Britain pushed up their earnings more steeply for less work than...
Some 18,000 Frenchmen who will be left jobless by the U.S. pull-out dubbed themselves "the National Committee for the Defense of Employees of Allied Bases" and registered a formal demand for severance pay equal to one month's salary for each year of service...
...none at all in the trial record. Patton, in fact, was regarded as a model prisoner. Ruling that "a prisoner may not be denied credit for time served, nor punished for obtaining a new trial," Judge Craven decided that there had been a violation of the due-process and equal-protection clauses of the 14th Amendment. Patton, he concluded, need only serve out the 20-year sentence originally imposed...
...glorious freedom ended in 1814, when the Dutch ceded the Cape Colony to Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. The British brought in property laws, courts, and worst of all, government. Shocked at the treatment of the natives, London ordered all slaves freed, proclaimed Coloreds, Hottentots, and even Bushmen equal...
...mere rapture of the deeps. But no longer. By extending his technology from the present 400-ft. levels to 5,000 ft., man may soon gain direct access to the continental shelves and slopes. Potential result: conquest of another 10% of the earth's surface-an area roughly equal to that of the moon...