Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject of the lecture, her third in the museum's annual Man and Nature series, was social change. Dr. Mead argued that primitive societies barely perceived change; a child repeated almost exactly the lives of his parents. In more advanced societies, which changed faster, children often abandoned their parents' ways and modeled their behavior on teachers or heroes. Now, however, the kind of change fostered by technology has removed even those models. Youths today, she argued, are like children of wilderness pioneers-the first natives in a new world. "For the first time in human history," she said...
French workers are eager for wage increases to cover cost-of-living increases. Prices have been rising by an annual rate of about 6%, faster than in any other Common Market country. Consumer costs have been swollen further by huge tax increases designed to dampen demand. Inflation has debased the currency to the point where, for the first time in years, black marketeers are selling francs for stronger money at discounts of 5% or more. The economy's weakness has so greatly affected the country's political power the French are no longer campaigning in world banking councils...
Only 1.4 seconds separated the top five finishers in the 1000-yard run, and Colburn's 2:09.4 was only one-tenth of a second behind fourth-place Ralph Schultz of Northwestern. Wisconsin's ray Arrington won the event in 2:08, six-tenths of a second faster than Colburn's Harvard record...
...earlier, its expected top cruising speed will be 1,450 m.p.h., and the plane will leap the Atlantic in three and a half hours, about twice as fast as a 707 or DC-8. Many passengers will probably be eager to hop aboard just to get there faster. But lines flying Concordes will have to charge a premium, perhaps 20% above regular jet fares, or make sure that each plane is more than 60% full. By contrast, existing jets can break even at 50% of capacity...
...hand 74 options, all of which can be withdrawn by the airlines that placed them. Meanwhile, the Europeans have been anxiously watching as the U.S. designs and redesigns its own SST. When the U.S. plane finally flies, it will be much bigger than the Concorde and some 350 m.p.h. faster. Britons continue to fear that they will again be first-as they were in television broadcasting, jet engines and jet transports-only to run into difficulties and be overtaken by the Americans, who stand to learn from the mistakes of the pioneers...