Word: partially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large degree, the success of Tito's latest experiment depends on Yugoslavia's continuing prosperity. After enjoying a miniboom for nearly a decade, the economy, which manages to combine capitalistic profit incentives within a Communist frame- work, has run into a severe inflationary problem. Despite a partial price and wage freeze last December, the cost of living is now rising at an annual rate of about 14%. A 20% devaluation of the dinar early this year failed to quench the thirst for foreign goods or boost Yugoslav exports. As a consequence, Yugoslavia has a trade deficit...
...attempt to measure the costs of war is to handle the quicksilver of suffering with clumsy fingers. Although much of the toll is beyond quantifying, some reckoning is possible. The Library of Congress has just completed a study for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that provides a partial accounting of Viet Nam expenditures...
Persuasive Proof. Now a group of British researchers have come up with a partial answer. In a series of papers published recently in the scientific journal Nature, they report that aspirin and its close pharmaceutical relatives tend to halt the production of prostaglandins, hormone-like substances first discovered in the 1930s. Although their exact role is still incompletely understood, prostaglandins occur in semen, menstrual fluid and a wide variety of human tissues. They are known to be involved with the functions of such diverse structures as the heart, bronchial tubes, blood vessels and stomach...
...flood of November 1966 will provoke people to expend large sums of money on saving art that they do not own. Because of the publicity campaigns mounted by organizations to save Venice from decaying into an empty, waterlogged Renaissance Disneyland, it may yet stand some chance of at least partial preservation as a city. But the Parthenon, under the influence of time, weather, vibration and industrial fumes, is turning to sand; and all over Italy, Spain and France there is a slow and apparently irreversible destruction of art by pollution, economic progress, neglect and age. This immense but rapidly shrinking...
...only the latest paradox in the career of Robert McNamara that he turns out to be a chief victim of the Viet Nam study that he initiated. In the documents that have been revealed to date-a partial picture, to be sure -the judgment of the once infallible Defense Secretary seems badly flawed. In the early 1960s, few other Government officials had quite his sense of assurance that escalation would pay off, that a steady application of American pressure and resources would turn the tide...