Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...survey indicates that, with one surprising reservation, the public's favorite source of daily news is television. When asked to imagine having "only one source of news," nearly half of the Harris respondents opt for TV, as against the one-third who prefer newspapers. However, when Harris asked, "How upset would you be if your main news source were to become unavailable for a month?", the result was reversed: 44% said they would be "very upset" to lose their newspaper but only a third would be very upset over a one-month loss of their favorite television news broadcast...
...jubilant scientists in Houston last week was Geochemist Oliver Schaeffer, who led the team that calculated the age of the lunar material. He used potassium-argon dating, a method based on the rate at which radioactive potassium decays into argon (it takes 1.3 billion years for half the potassium to decay); as time passes, the ratio between the potassium and argon in a specimen changes at a known rate, thus revealing the approximate age of the sample. If there is any error at all, Schaeffer explains, he has underestimated the age of the rocks, because some argon may have been...
Self-Hate. Bettelheim devotes his most careful scrutiny to the activities of the most radical student leaders, and blames their shrillness on parents who raised them with half-baked psychoanalytic theories. "Psychoanalysis has certainly suggested that we should not suppress our inner rages but should face them," Bettelheim writes. "But we were only expected to face them in thought, and only in the safely structured treatment situation. This has been misapplied by large numbers of the educated middle classes to mean that aggression should always be expressed, and not just in thought. Accordingly, many children today do not learn...
...which captured more than 10% of the total U.S. market last year for the first time since 1959. A decade ago, Detroit responded to the inroads of foreign competition by bringing out a fleet of compacts; within four years, the imports' share of the market was cut in half. Now the auto companies are ready to renew the battle with yet another generation of small cars...
Belgian prices rose 3% in the first half of 1969, after staying almost unchanged through 1968. The rate of increase is leveling off now, but on Jan. 1 Belgians will begin paying a value-added...