Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOVIET PRODUCTION is increasing by 9.9% a year v. 4.4% for U.S., says House-Senate Joint Economic Committee. But gap between two countries is actually widening because U.S. advances are figured on much bigger base, and rate of Soviet increase is slowing down. Committee figures that Soviet industry is one-third size of U.S. industry, mostly because Soviet production of consumer goods is far lower...
...executives were workers in an experiment designed to bridge the gap between the practical world of U.S. business and the world of philosophical ideas. "Whether it's so or not," says Montgomery Ward's President John Barr, "every executive thinks that he does not do enough thinking." To give U.S. executives a chance to think and talk in a relaxed atmosphere. Container Corp. of America Chairman Walter Paepcke, 61, in 1950 set up the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a nonprofit foundation that runs living quarters, executive seminars, a new health center, and a spate of lectures, forums...
Author Ward's most astute observation is that the West may not be able to export the idea of individual dignity and freedom without the Judaeo-Christian metaphysics to which it is linked. She gingerly hopes that a deistic, syncretistic "perennial philosophy" may fill the gap...
There is a deep concern that the undergraduate years may become a transitory stop-gap, a short breather between secondary school and graduate education. Within such a concept, College education would wither; the contribution would deteriorate, and the meaning of an A.B. degree would diminish...
...adequate Nat Sci in the biological sciences, Nat Sci 8, filled a gap of many years' standing this year. This brought the elementary offerings up to par with the other two areas, but the deficiency in second group courses shows all the more clearly...