Word: longer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largest oil producer, to keep the lid on' Last July, Saudi officials announced that they would raise their daily oil production during the remainder of 1979 from 8 5 million to 9.5 million bbl. Not so long ago, such an increase would have prevented unilateral price hikes. No longer. The rules of the oil game have changed...
...exuberant Ladies' Home Journal article; anyone who could invest $15 a month, he declared, could eventually reap a profit of $80,000. A Harvard behavioral psychologist named John Watson even found therapeutic value in speculation. "Sex has become so free and abundant," he theorized, "that it no longer provides the thrill it once did." Gambling on Wall Street is about the only thrill we have left...
...ablest students I see are headed for law or medicine. Recruitment into science is no longer of the ablest but of the upper middle level. It's been going on for five or six years." One important reason, says Riesman, "is egalitarianism. We have a Lysenko lobby in this country-the Clamshell Alliance and others who think science is harmful, who feel guilty about it and try to paralyze it. They think it's more important to distribute jobs among the needy than to do exotic research. There's a lack of the sense of glory...
...They no longer know the truth of the bottom line, because there is no bottom line to baggy jeans...
Boggling figures of that sort have been popular as curiosities ever since Archimedes tried to calculate how many grains of sand the universe could contain (1051, he said). Today, however, mind-walloping numbers are no longer oddities; they are the stuffing of ordinary news and public discourse. While even the biggest figures no doubt possess meaning, it is impossible not to suspect that many casually circulated numbers might as well be the music of the spheres...