Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studied the Marxist writers can fail to be impressed by the emphasis placed on destructive criticism of the capitalist system. Violent trade cycles and war are said to be inevitable products. Of course, we know that this is an utterly false view. Nevertheless, two things are true, which we have not yet all learned. First, prosperity, like peace, is indivisible; secondly, there are still too many artificial barriers to the free flow of money and trade in the free world. Just as the economies of the states of the Union of this continent grew together two hundred years...
...strong prejudices seem to have set themselves deep in American attitudes towards education: First, demands for equal rights often fail to recognize unequal talents--many complain that to select certain gifted students for special instruction violates the democratic principle. Secondly, American emphasis on material success measured in terms of financial profit scorns the academic world as largely useless, except in its strictly vocational manifestations...
Such improvements are not long-range hypothesizing, nor mere suggestions in a tolerable situation. Each is an urgent requirement if our society is best to serve itself and its members, not to mention maintaining or improving its status in the Cold War. If administrators and school officials fail to act in meeting what may be properly termed a crisis--for more than the gifted child--then it is up to parents and citizens of the community to fill in. The nation's press has recorded events in Lakewood, Ohio, where parents launched after-hours special classes in language and science...
...reason for this disparity, says Wernick, is the vast increase in so-called "nonproduction" workers, which corporations often fail to take into account. Between 1947 and 1957, nonproduction workers increased by 1,400,000, or 55%, v. only a 125,000, or 1%, increase in production-line workers. Salary payments jumped even faster (see chart...
Aerial Taxis. Flying a fleet of 36 planes, mostly new Super Constellations, to 80 cities in 27 lands, Qantas is one of the few government-owned lines that is run like a private business, has never failed to turn a tidy profit. Qantas could hardly fail, since Australia is isolated from the rest of the world and planes are the only means of swift travel. This year it expects to gross at least $70 million, with a net profit of $2,000,000, both up close to 40% since...