Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he heard that dinosaur remains had been discovered in a stone quarry near Manchester, Conn., Yale University's Othniel Charles Marsh, a pioneering paleontologist, rushed off to see for himself. Sure enough, there were the fossilized bones of a small (7-ft.-long) creature that was later identified as Ammosaurus major, an inhabitant of the area 200 million years ago. But Marsh was already too late. The dinosaur's front half had already been carted away; the brownstone in which the fossils were encased had been cut into blocks and cemented into a new highway bridge...
Leisure time? "The 30-hour work week will not come. People will enter the labor market later and later as education grows. And they may retire earlier, but they will continue to take their benefits in the form of money rather than a shorter week...
...pair of ears, and one pair of eyes. There will be more people?as many perhaps as the country can support?and the real question will be not about making more wealth or having more people, but whether the people will then be happier or better." Sixty years later, it is still the real question?for Californians and, inevitably, the rest of the nation...
...York Stock Exchange official, Shultz graduated from Princeton in 1942 with an honors degree in economics. During World War II, he was a major in the Marines. He earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics at M.I.T. in 1949, then joined the faculty as a professor of industrial relations. Later, he went to the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and became its dean in 1962. He is married to a former Army nurse, and they have five children...
...structure and order that we had inherited from the nineteenth century was gone and that the struggle to replace it would be directed from two bitterly opposed and ideologically irreconcilable power centers." The title of the book is thus not a rhetorical fancy. As Under Secretary (1945-1947) and later Secretary of State (1949-1953), he was present at the creation of a new world order-and had a considerable role in its formation...