Word: growths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plant Growth and Development." Prerequisite, Bio 11. From seedling, to sapling, to adult tree...
...whereas Aguirre could be dismissed as the flawed effort of a young filmmaker who had seen one too many Bergman films for his own good, no such allowances can be or should be made for Stroszek. Five years of reflection and presumed growth have taken Herzog a painfully short distance, and this exercise in depression and squalor has mired Herr Werner still deeper in the quicksand of the art film syndrome. Stroszek is an aimless film about aimless people, society's losers who spend their lives groping for a promised dream that goes unfulfilled. Set in the slums of Berlin...
...trains, local transportation and sewer systems. To lower unemployment, Fukuda proposes retraining laid-off workers and granting as yet unspecified hiring incentives to employers. In addition, the nation's central bank would lower interest rates slightly to encourage business spending. All that, said Fukuda, should boost the annual growth rate to 6.7% by next spring, from 5.9% forecast currently, ease unemployment and stem the tide of bankruptcies, now running at 1,500 a month...
...Small Is Beautiful; of a heart attack; while en route by train from Lausanne to Zurich, Switzerland. Schumacher, who immigrated to England before World War II, served as economic adviser to Britain's National Coal Board from 1950 to 1970. In his 1973 book, Schumacher maintained that continuous growth was not necessarily desirable; that small, energy-saving units of production could often best serve human needs...
HIID's consulting project in Iran has probably received the harshest criticism in the University community. The Iran project, which stationed as many as 12 Harvard advisers in Iran at once, focused on planning the growth of Iran's capital city, Teheran. As the project nears its November termination date, HIID officials admit that Harvard's work in Iran has been less than successful. David C. Cole, associate director of the Institute for Overseas Projects, concedes the Teheran effort "has not been a very effective project. We haven't been able to accomplish very much...