Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, this interdependence has many weaknesses, and many hazards. If the community is a relatively poor one, a halt-leading-the-blind relationship may occur, with mistake following ludicrous mistake down the trail of ignominy. In Cambridge, for example, the School Committee, the elected body of parents responsible for supervising the schools, tried to "improve" its school facilities by making a series of unnecessary appointments and promoting unqualified men to responsible jobs in the school system. In this case, the irresponsible action of one group of parents was rectified by another group of parents, who organized petitions and referenda...
...effect of the changing nature of the economy is that a much larger drop in employment must occur -and remain for longer periods-than anyone before thought necessary to force down prices to any appreciable extent. Johns Hopkins' Joseph Aschheim estimates that unemployment must continue at between 5% and 10% for an extended period to attain price stability, thinks that it is closer to 5% than to 10%. Other economists set unemployment levels at 8% or more before prices will stabilize, or drop...
...Time for Sergeants (Warner), adapted from a Broadway hit adapted from a 1954 bestseller, is a sometimes hilarious little Parable of the Willing Draftee-the story of the horrible things that can occur when one good apple happens to get into the barrel...
...within 100 feet of each other. From 1950 till the Grand Canyon disaster on June 30, 1956, almost seventy collisions involving civil airplanes took place(not including a high military total), but none had previously involved passenger planes. Many experts consider it possible, even likely, that a collision might occur over a large city, where the worst traffic jams are located...
...with members of the University faculties, with members of the Cambridge community or with the standing committee." If Professor MacLeish's statement is adopted, the faculty and its committee should use these powers of proposing and rejecting with discretion, i.e. seldom or never, keeping them in reserve should emergencies occur or spontaneous student interest decline...