Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vogt's "main thesis" is that the world cannot materially expand, perhaps not even maintain, its present food production. The scientists TIME consulted (in the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering, and the U.S. Soil Conservation Service) disagree strongly with this thesis. TIME did not deny that the human species is theoretically able to multiply without limit. Neither is there any theoretical limit to the food supply. But TIME pointed out that when people reach high standards of living and education, they tend to balance their increase with their means of subsistence...
...father. There were good reasons. The Communists were still a constant threat to Nationalist China-and Japanese intentions were perfectly plain to Chiang. But in 1931, when Japan occupied Manchuria, Chiang was cautious. He was still building his Whampoa-trained army. Said he: "We exhort the entire nation to maintain a dignified calm...
...still like to play them, or any other University group," the girls agreed. "It's a shame that the authorities maintain a medieval attitude in regard to two sexes using the same pool at the same time," one of the girls added dejectedly...
Labor. Minimum wage of 75? an hour (now 40?); restoration to the Labor Department of all the authority taken away from it by the 80th Congress; repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and a return to the more pro-labor pattern of the Wagner Act; government action to maintain "full employment" with a goal of 64 million employed by 1958; more generous unemployment compensation...
...would have been better to posit the situation in terms of balance. Then you would have reminded your readers of a basic truth-that emotional buoyancy and mental stability come, not so much from the resolution of conflict, but from the ability of the personality to maintain a balance between drives of varying intensity...