Word: growth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEARD is a prime example of why Japan's Akira Kurosawa is counted as one of the world's greatest film makers. He transforms a rather ordinary story about the spiritual growth of a young doctor into a vast, epical canvas executed with thematic brilliance and stylistic perfection...
Cognition Growth. Bruner's work with babies grew out of earlier studies with children between the ages of three and twelve. He was impressed by the competence of three-year-olds, decided to look at the earliest stages of intelligent being-"what was the nature of infancy, what could we say about how infancy prepares a child for this life and culture?" His experiments seem to challenge the prevailing psychological theories that say, in effect, that the baby climbs toward intellectual maturity from a very humble level, along a series of predetermined steps...
Riklis is not swearing off mergers entirely, but he is showing an unusual interest in such mundane goals as cutting costs and expanding markets. By internal growth alone, he figures that in five years he can more than double his profits, which he estimates will come to about $47 million in 1969. Since he took over Schenley (1968 sales: $550 million) last fall, he has shaved its operating costs by $10 million. He did it partly by firing surplus executives and partly by setting up inventory procedures that, he says, are at last forcing wholesalers "to learn how to order...
...succession of improvised responses to unexpected situations. All the way along, the left has been picking up bits and pieces of experience and incorporating them as ideology. From the early antiwar days, we have the mystique of resistance and myths about the feebleness of illegitimate authority. The growth of the hippie movement contributed to the left a hodgepodge of cultural notions that were dubbed "revolutionary" and stuck into the movement. Finally the success of the Viet Cong has helped to create a tremendously powerful mystique of Third World Revolution...
From Apollo's infra-red pictures, for example, scientists will be able to distinguish the location of diseased vegetation in areas of healthy growth. On film recording only green light, which best penetrates water, they will be able to see the bottom contours of rivers, lakes and shallow coastal waters...