Word: incremental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extremes of actual hunger and physical debilitation. By guaranteeing a minimum income to every one of its citizens, a society as affluent as today's America can afford not only to keep its economic cripples well housed, well fed?and well?but also to provide them with the crucial increment of dignity that is denied by penury...
...workers received an adjustment of 4 per cent in their wages from July, 1966 to July 1967; a 4 1/2 per cent wage increase for the year ending July 28, 1968; and a 5 per cent increment for the final contract period, which extends to December...
...most logical increment, Mrs. Bunting explained, would be to build another Radcliffe House to relieve over-crowding and off-campus living...
...Federation does succeed in quadrupling its membership and in achieving some kind of tolerably representative status, the implications of its "adversary" stance are grave. One can refuse to sign a petition, one can even refuse to accept any salary increment resulting from the unlikely success of such a petition, but one cannot easily halt the trend towards an industrial-type confrontation. Harvard becomes a factory, Teaching Fellows become machine operators, the undergraduates become sausages and the administration the evil board of directors. My great-great-grandfather, who organized the miners on the Radstock coalfield, must be turning in his grave...
...ultimate hero is the democratic process itself, which is bigger than any individual. This may cut down heroes. But it can also inspire an increment of effort that can make a hero out of many a man who was born in obscurity and never suspected his own strength...