Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education is only one phase of the self-perpetuating cycle that entraps the Negro-a low-paying job, or none at all, leading to housing in a slum, leading to a segregated, second-rate school, leading back to an inferior job. The basic way to break the vicious circle, thinks Moynihan, is with money. "Beef up the family income," he says, "and everything else will follow in its train." Moynihan proposes two measures. The Federal Government, he says, should guarantee jobs by becoming the "employer of last resort" any time the national unemployment rate is above 3%. Merely putting...
...under way across the country, most are merely glorified housing developments. Only three-Reston, Va., Columbia, Md., and Irvine, Calif. -are nationally recognized as new towns. Because they must show a profit, however, even these will not be able to soak up more than a handful of low-income people. Without eminent domain and the resources of a government, the obstacles to building a new city are enormous. To acquire land for Columbia without driving prices to the sky, for example, developers had to use all kinds of cloak-and-dagger techniques in making 169 separate purchases...
...Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission dedicated the world's largest single-unit desalting plant, a gleaming $3.3 million facility that can produce up to 2,620,000 gallons a day. The plant uses the so-called "flash" process, by which heated sea water is forced through a series of low-pressure chambers until it vaporizes into steam, which, in turn, condenses into pure water-much as steam condenses on the surface of a tea kettle. Fifteen years ago, desalination cost up to $5 per 1,000 gallons; with the flash method, it now costs...
...early 1960s, more and more princes were drifting into a new princely calling-politics. Their former subjects, nostalgic for the good old days of low prices and far less bureaucracy, turned out in droves to vote for them...
...Galimir and company's performance of Mozart's Divertimento No. 7 in D major, K. 205. Scored for violin, viola, 'cello, double bass, two French horns and bassoon, the piece provided a refreshing antidote to the solid-string sound that had preceeded it. The preponderance of instruments with low ranges tended to make the piece a bit bottom heavy, but Galimir played as if trying to make up singlehandedly for the dearth of treble companions. He more than succeeded...