Word: growths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HUNGER, most Americans seem to believe, is one of those insoluble problems, a result of rapid population growth in a world with limited resources. Newspapers have stopped running those heart-wrenching pictures of malnourished babies in the Third World; we seem to have reached a tacit agreement that if the Green Revolution could not feed the world, nothing can. People will go on starving--in Bangladesh, in the Sahel, on the outskirts of every large Third World city--and the best we can hope to do is buy time until things get really serious, and save ourselves when they...
...median income of American families and consumer prices generally both rose about 47%. But, reports the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, the median price of existing houses jumped 65%, from $23,030 to $38,100. Worse, newhouse prices shot up 89%, to $44,200. The growth in size and quality of the houses brought part of this great increase, but most of it was produced by housing inflation...
...deserts' cancerous growth came to worldwide attention in the early 1970s with the great drought and famine in Africa's Sahel, the band of impoverished land across the Sahara's southern flank. More than 100,000 people perished before the rains finally came in 1974, and that was not the end of the tragedy. Hundreds of thousands of tribesmen remain in camps, and the desert's encroachment has not halted. Senegal told the U.N. meeting that it feared its coastal capital, Dakar, would soon be engulfed...
Some scientists feared that the document placed too much faith in technological-rather than "human"-solutions, but the plea nonetheless represents a milestone. For the first time, the international community is committing itself to the fight against the growth of deserts. While the document leaves action up to individual countries, the incentive to collaborate-perhaps even with old enemies-is great. To many countries, doing battle against the deserts is the only alternative to poverty, starvation and chaos...
...huge appetite for so-called service features on every self-help subject, from "Indoor Gardening" to "Outdoor Life." "People want to read about how to maintain the car, keep their health, fix the plumbing," says Priscilla Felton, manager of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Book serialization is another growth industry. The New York Times Syndicate has paid six-figure sums for the rights to syndicate forthcoming blockbusters by H.R. Haldeman and Richard Nixon, and picked up Alex Haley's Roots for a song before the book's TV series caught on. Universal is turning thrillers like Raise...