Word: levelism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the powerful force of constructive work." At Mosquera, he told the campesinos: "We know how, in the great continent of Latin America, economic and social development has been unequal. It has passed over the multitude of the indigenous peoples, who have almost always been abandoned to an ignoble level of life...
...Venusian at mosphere, they report in the current issue of Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, is much hotter and far more crushing than the Soviets think. On the surface the temperature is actually close to 900° F., the atmospheric pressure a staggering 75 to 100 times the sea level pressure on Earth...
...will probably increase rather than abate in the coming school year. As outgoing President Schwartz sees it, the more moderate students are so discouraged that they may drop out of student movements, allowing the radicals to take over. When that happens, anything can happen. "Once a Columbia raises the level of what is acceptable," said Schwartz, "mere demonstrations become innocuous...
...farmers' associations in each country had to be considered and appeased, the resulting agreements apparently proved too rigid to cope with bumper crops everywhere. The accords forbid selling surplus produce within the market and call, instead, for destruction of perishable crops when prices sink to a fixed minimum level. The purpose was to protect the farmer by assuring him a reasonable income...
...weighing the possibility of distilling the excess fruit into schnapps. Germany's Butterberg problem is even more serious. Nearly 30% of the profits of German farming comes from milk products. Common Market regulations allow the government to support the price of butter at the 75-cents-a-pound level. This means in effect that the dairy must buy all the milk a farmer delivers, then pass on the surplus butter to the government stockpile at the minimum price. Such assurances have made the German farmer even more attached to his cow. Fed now with enriched fodder, notably U.S. soybeans...