Word: level
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often in the self-interest of government agencies to ignore the secondary consequences of their decisions. It facilitates both their survival and expansion. In the real world there exists little rational planning. The most critical decisions result haphazardly, for they must be ratified at a number of unrelated levels: Congress, the state legislature, and city council. The New Federalism, which Moynihan is advocating, will encourage more neglect by increasing the strength at each level...
...concept of the program was formulated in seminars in which individuals involved with children in various ways participated. In addition to academic personnel on a university level, puppeteers, pre-school teachers, children's book authors, and animators took part in these discussions...
...great relief to Harvard people who care about such things if next year Yovicsin could produce the same sort of psychological therapy as Munro has this fall. But, then again, the two men are very different from each other. Maybe captain Gary Farneti can effect some changes in the level of team spirit...
...contestants, the present pavilion is a comedown of sorts from the spectacular cluster of airborne spheres originally proposed but ruled out by a congressional budget slash. But the design is still a spectacular achievement. From the air it may look like a king-size mattress pad, but from ground level the thing it most resembles is a moon crater roofed over with a shallow, translucent dome. The pavilion covers an oval area approximately the size of two football fields. Its solid, earth-filled walls slope as gently inward and upward as the lower slopes of Fujiyama. Halfway up, the solid...
...budget surplus will actually stop inflation. The latest economic statistics indicate that the policies are indeed slowing the economy. Corporate profits dropped sharply in the third quarter, and industrial production fell in October for the third straight month (see chart). Housing starts fell 12% last month to the lowest level in two years, and new orders for durable goods, which had risen sharply in September, settled back again. The price picture is less clear. The consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 4.8% in October, compared with a 6% rate in September, but a one-month variation...