Word: level
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holidays made Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap a resounding success. If the business man and the Government looked at the ghetto as an underdeveloped country, they would in fact see one of the world's greatest potential markets. If black incomes were brought up to the white level, businessmen would have a new market of about $20 billion a year...
...supergovernmental agency, called Metro, of 94 separate taxing districts around the lake and built big new sewage-treatment plants. "He won't tell you he was responsible," says a friend, "but Jim put Metro together. He didn't worry about the problems involved in creating another level of government. He just felt it had to be done...
...general on his junior officers. The bovine ribonuclease that has been synthesized will have no immediate value as a treatment for any of the ills of animals or man. But its synthesis shows that man is coming closer to his goal of emulating nature at the most basic, biochemical level...
...international trade, the nation last year suffered a setback. As Under Secretary of the Treasury Frederick Deming reported, the trade surplus shrank to a "miserable $500 million, down $3 billion from 1967's respectable but relatively poor showing and down more than $6 billion from the 1964 level." Inflation, the Viet Nam war, and higher imports (see following story) share the blame. Only because many foreign investors poured funds into the U.S. was the nation able to achieve a $150 million surplus in its balance of payments. It was the first such surplus in eleven years...
...playing of his cross-referencing of word and image, forgets to be the Delphic oracle, and finds a poem that reaches outside of itself to the real world of experience. In "My Mother Would Be a Falconress," the relationship between mother and child is placed on a chilling medieval level that includes a touch of Freudian contest...