Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Langley, our Super Sabre whooshed over Virginia's Dismal Swamp to the cirrus-dappled air over North Carolina's Chowan River. This area was set aside for acrobatics, cleared of other aircraft. In the Super Sabre, Brett could have wafted into weightlessness by flying high and level, faster than sound, and pushing the plane's nose up into the Keplerian trajectory, in which centrifugal force exactly cancels the earth's gravitational pull. Despite his plane's vast speed reserve, he chose to work at lower altitudes, enter the parabola from a power dive (see diagram...
...This is a stab in the back." To some critics and subscribers, a Scala with no top diva seemed a disaster. Others considered the price well worth the exit of Callas. "She corrupts public taste," cried the Giorno critic. "She lowers the noble assembly of the theater to the level of an arena...
...Lisbon high school that he stood for "the persecuted intellectuals, the university graduates without means of work, the abandoned artists, the writers intimidated by the censor, the technicians denied the possibility of giving their best, the muzzled journalists -in fact, all that in other countries represents a true level of culture...
STOCK TRADING on New York Stock Exchange is up almost 10% from last year's bull-market level. Round-lot and odd-lot trading stands at 232 million shares, v. 211 million a year ago-a plain sign that the public has plenty of money...
Economists have long known that 100% employment is impossible under any circumstances because there is always a certain amount of frictional unemployment caused by transitional or "between-job" idleness. But after World War II they did think that a level of "reasonably full employment" could be achieved along with stable prices, generally agreed that it would average out at 96% employment, or 4% unemployment. If unemployment rose above 4%, they felt that lowered purchasing power would cause prices to fall; if unemployment dropped below 4%, increasing demand would push prices higher. Now they know that this level no longer applies...