Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there be light in the lecture rooms. Sanders Theater and the Geological Lecture Room are each more than 50 footcandles below the recommended lighting levels, and the Fogg Large Lecture Room and Pierce are ill-illumined...
...thick of the bargaining. A Lacerda man-and a good one-landed the Health Ministry. Kubitschek's prize, voted by Congress without military interference, was a less happy choice. Into Brazil's vice-presidency went José Maria Alkmim, 62, an old crony who for 28 ill-starred months served as Kubitschek's Finance Minister, during which time scandals rocked the ministry, the value of the cruzeiro dropped 50%, retail prices soared 60% and the treasury debt to the Bank of Brazil tripled...
Risky Distinctions. To the West, the ultimate question raised by the Sino-Soviet split is whether it bodes good or ill. All Communist splits, big or small, are essentially the result of failures-failure to meet a goal, failure to measure up to reality. One failure behind the present Sino-Soviet quarrel is Russia's recent inability to make headway in the cold war; another is the glaring fact that more than four decades after the revolution, communism is nowhere able to match the capitalist standard of living. In this respect, the West can obviously take heart from...
Finally, though hardly uniquely, you learn something of an industry and its problems working at sea. American shipping is chronically ill; despite government subsidies (every large seafaring nation subsidizes its ships), there are a host of problems involving costs, replacements, schedules, etc. For the seaman the result is that American wages, though still the highest, are being approached by the Scandinavian and West-European. American living conditions, eventually more important than wages, are the worst, bar none, of any of the industrial nations. There is a phrase you often hear, that Americans don't live on their ships, they just...
...Shrine. Having been burned so badly with the ill-fated Edsel, whose styling it unaccountably failed to market research before its introduction, Ford this time conducted 14 studies on the Mustang, ranging from interviews with Monza owners to name and pricing studies. Its staff of 20, the industry's largest, found, among other things, that the car's outside appearance ranks first with the under-25 crowd and that four seaters are preferred 16-to-l among sports-car owners...