Word: globally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...famous doomsday treatise four years ago, the Club of Rome depicted a world consuming its resources and polluting itself at a rate that-if continued-would ensure its early destruction. The only hope for global salvation was suggested in the report's title: The Limits to Growth...
Some of the Club's new proposals for global controls and planning were highly questionable, but its basic turnabout was laudable. A world threatened by starvation and widening economic imbalance between nations must have development, not stagnation, of industrial and natural resources. Moreover, in an economically shrinking world without growth, political freedom would almost certainly disappear, giving way to regimes that ration not only goods but people's lives...
...regular Harvard departments that deal with just one segment of the American population. History, Economics, or Government are not departments organized to deal with just one segment of American society; they are departments created with the intention of dealing with their separate and respective branches of knowledge on a global basis, though as presently constituted they deal primarily with the Western world. It is therefore fallacious to assume that the issue is one of organizing Afro-American Studies along the lines of these disciplines or patterning it according to their prototype. What, indeed, does it mean to organize Afro-American...
...Israel's nuclear capability play a part in the U.S. global military alert of Oct. 25, 1973? According to TIME'S sources, the Israelis were convinced that the Russians had learned of the newly acquired nuclear potential, possibly through a Soviet Cosmos spy satellite over the Middle East. What is certain
...related pneumonia-had been infected with a new and more worrisome viral strain. Medical experts are concerned that the virus, usually seen only in swine, may be similar to the lethal virus that probably caused some 20 million deaths-including 548,000 in the U.S.-during the great global flu "pandemic...