Word: growth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject of controversy because most Government and private statistics do not take into account such factors as price rises, and because they are based on arbitrarily selected short periods of years. Last week the privately financed Committee for Economic Development announced a new set of charts called the Growth Reckoner, boldly designed to avoid the error possibilities inherent in most official U.S. statistics...
While the gap between American and Russion consumption remains huge, Soviet industry is not so far behind that of the United States. Since 1951, Bergson relates, its output has been increasing at a rate of nine per cent annually, about three times quicker than American growth...
...interest that these little-known fields hold has aided this growth, he said. However, he pointed out that there is a scarcity of books, even in Far Eastern languages, dealing with these subjects. Also, competent teachers are lacking. Because of these difficulties, students are often afraid to enter what Reischauer termed a "frontier situation...
David v. Goliath. In daring to challenge Goliath IBM, Callies and Vieillard know that they are still in point of present gross (estimated for this year at $35 million) a pretty small David. But they count on the fact that they are showing a fast sales-growth rate. Annually since 1946, their exports have risen 25%. Last year they shipped $18 million worth of equipment to customers in 42 countries. Of that, $9,000,000 went to countries in the dollar area...
...required to attend one of these. The rationale for the modification is that some students will benefit more from a lecture than from the small classes that form the mainstay of the system. An expansion program which will result in the addition of 150 students without a corresponding growth in faculty threatens to force continuing deemphasis of small classes...