Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...People's Choice. As the engineers and scientists of the International Hydrological Decade expand man's knowledge of water, man will have to face up to critical decisions. And in the U.S., at least, the questions are not so much technical as they are problems of economics and management. "After the hydrologist states the problem," says Dr. Nace, who proposed the idea of the 1HD and became the chief U.S. representative of the Decade, "the policymakers must solve it." Thus, the great problem is people. "How many of them know what water is about?" asks William E. Warne...
...second straight month, thanks to a bountiful harvest and beneficent weather. Steel demand tapered as the strike threat faded, and import competition remained stiff, serving to dampen any inclination toward rises in basic steel prices. Industrial investment this year will scale an alltime peak of $50 billion; that will expand capacity and reduce pressure on marginal plant. One powerful psychological brake to inflation: General Motors' decision to hold the line in auto prices (see following story...
...short term military success, Morgenthau said, would give the Chinese an excuse to expand as liberators of American Colonialism. The threat of Communism, he concluded, has blinded the U.S. to the possibility of directing revolutions instead of fighting them...
...teenagers, young married people and families that want a second camera." To reach them better Polaroid will broaden its distribution system, sell its cameras in drugstores and college book stores for the first time. Film Passes Cameras. The real significance of the Swinger, however is that it will greatly expand sales of Polaroid film. An eight-picture roll of film for the Swinger will retail at $1.99 (compared with $2.55 for black-and-white Polaroid packs and $5.19 for color Polaroid packs). Polaroid's strategy is to create lower-priced cameras in order to increase demand for its film...
...foreseeable future, the battles will increase, the crisis will become even less quiet. Litter must go somewhere. Highway businesses will expand. Cars and washing machines wear out but will not disintegrate. Pulp, paper and wood so far come only from trees. And an expanding population must have more power and more factories and more homes to live...