Word: part
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among the nation's most ardent conservationists, they have nonetheless allowed untold pollution and desecration of their land, air, waters and wildlife. The nearly five million automobiles that churn through the Los Angeles megalopolis spew exhaust from 8,000,000 gallons of gasoline every day ?thanks in large part to the inefficient smog-control devices that the cars are required to carry...
Like camp, Art Deco is an acquired taste-and not everyone wants to acquire it. Part fad, part cultivated eccentricity, it will survive in a scattering of artifacts. But not even its greatest admirers would commend it as a model of form for the future...
...always "being disregarded, attacked, and commanded to do better-the very things which led him to be an abuser in the first place." Nor is it always wise for a therapist to intervene when he sees a child being badly treated, believes Psychiatric Social Worker Elizabeth Davoren, who took part in the Colorado study. "Protecting a child when you cannot continue such protection beyond the moment may be the cruelest thing...
...payments should be extended to the working poor, a proposal that Arthur Burns, for one, argued would be too costly and would induce many people to stop working and go on welfare. Shultz suggested a middle course of providing "work incentives" that would enable families to keep a major part of their wages without losing their rights to welfare funds. To protests that it would cost too much, he replied, "$1 billion isn't anything if it will make the program work." Nixon agreed...
...will theoretically affect the others. Like the design for a new airplane, the model can be "tested" in a computer without the risk of painful mistakes. Even if the results are not wholly accurate, the discipline of building a model enhances understanding of economic problems. Modelmaking is an important part of France's Le Plan, and in the U.S., the Federal Reserve Board is trying econometrics to aid its forecasts of business activity...