Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the most recalcitrant whites are likely to accept social integration at a faster rate if they gain far more than they lose in the process. One idea should certainly be tried out in the hundreds of lower-middle-class schools that are now in many ways just as inferior as those in black ghettos; these schools should be upgraded while being integrated. Instead of punishing communities that fail to integrate, for example, the Federal Government might well reward those that do so by increasing their subsidies. Equally important, the cities must soon combine help for black ghettos with more...
Linder's socio-economic put-down is based on the assumption that the rarest element on earth is time. Time cannot be stored or saved, or consumed at a rate faster than it is produced. The rich man has no more of it than the pauper-and no less. Previous economic theory, says Linder, fails to take into sufficient account that leisure time must be consumed, either by doing something or doing nothing. For a society both af fluent and leisured, and anxious to put every moment to good use, there are simply too many things to do. Overwhelmed...
...Shannon Pratt, director of the Portland (Ore.) State University Investment Analysis Center, estimates that the value of his own stocks has dropped 23% since May-a period during which the Dow-Jones industrial average has gone down 15%. He invests largely in over-the-counter stocks, which rose faster than most listed shares during the bull market but dropped more sharply during the current slide. A young stock salesman for a San Francisco brokerage house is so discouraged by his own losses that he says, "I don't think I'll ever buy any stock again...
...represented by the State Department's William Rogers, Commerce's Maurice Stans and Agriculture's Clifford Hardin, as well as Paul McCracken, the President's chief economic adviser. They will urge their Japanese counterparts to start removing import quotas on 120 products, and move faster in approving requests from U.S. companies that want to set up joint ventures in Japan to build cars, electronic components and other high-technology products. Relations between the U.S. and Japan are becoming steadily closer-and closeness creates friction...
Horses which beat all comers at any distance have class. Except for a Man O' War who never is pushed to his limits, all horses have been extended to their best effort before the end of their three year old season. The classier the horse the faster he will run--when tested...