Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Specialization comes early in English schools--at 15 or 16, many must make the choice between the arts and sciences, and over the next three years are systematically tested and graded through the General Certificate of Education in a variety of subjects at both Ordinary (O) and Advanced (A) Levels. Admission to university will depend on A Level grades--and in the case of Oxford and Cambridge also on their own internal examinations...
...fact, Soviet scientists envision few of the problems that concern even pro-nuclear Americans. Most feel that their present system for handling low-level radioactive wastes provides ample protection. They are cooled off by storage in on-site "swimming pools" for three years, then shipped to a reprocessing plant where their radiation is reduced even further, and finally they are pumped into deep wells. The scientists also insist that their country's method of disposing of highly radioactive wastes, which are also stored underground, is adequate. They figure that Americans worry too much about waste...
Today, after 31 years of Communist government, Poland has more than 20,000 Catholic priests-6,000 more than it had on the eve of war in 1938-and some 32,000 nuns, fully twice the 1938 figure. The faith penetrates nearly every level of society. A vigorous Catholic intelligentsia has grown up in the Communist years and developed a link with human rights activists. The regime fears to damp down lest it trigger more protest. Concedes one Communist official ruefully: "The church is an unofficial opposition...
...moment, the work remain at the experimental level. But Dingle see many practical future applications, ranging from stereo set components that require less energy to a new generation o high-speed computers and telephone transmission systems. Even more dazzling devices may be in the offing. At present semiconductors are flat; their electrons, for all practical purposes, flow in a single plane. But with the new layering technique, Dingle foresees three-dimensional devices in which electrons flow in all directions. That could make possible even tinier circuitry that would make today's minuscule computers look like veritable dinosaurs...
Investors' overriding worry, however, is not the dollar but interest rates. Last week the Federal Reserve Board acted to push the "Fed funds" rate at which banks lend to one another to nearly 9%, a level that Economist Okun believes-almost guarantees recession by making borrowing more expensive. Nor is there much hope that the rises in loan charges will stop. The Federal Reserve has been jacking up interest rates largely in order to contain an inflationary increase in the U.S. money supply, but so far it has failed. Money supply during the past month has shot...