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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, "every 100 families in 1970 will have 71 radios as against 61, 52 washing machines as against 21, and 32 refrigerators instead of only eleven." His list, however, could not mask the fact that progress in the crucial area of consumer goods has been disappointing; shortages persist not only in autos, refrigerators and small appliances, but also in even such items as table crockery and knives and forks. Soviet planners have also been unable to correct chronic shortfalls in such basic industrial items as steel, coal, fertilizers, cement, paper and electric power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Purposeful Budgetry | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Soviet Union will still be the most important nations in the world. But they will no longer remain, as they have for most of the postwar era, virtually alone on the pinnacle of power. The possibility of war between America and the Soviet Union obviously will persist, but armed conflict is a very distant possibility in the '70s. Since the Cuban missile crisis, both nations have slowly arrived at the tacit but wary understanding that dropping the bomb would mean global disaster, and the balance of nuclear terror has proved to be exactly that-a durable and war-deterring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The '60s to The 70s: Dissent and Discovery | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...statement released late last night replied, "The University regrets the failure to find a basis for a common approach to the problems of increasing black and other minority employment on construction projects. We are convinced that our interests are the same as OBU on these questions, and will therefore persist in seeking a basis for agreement...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: OBU Rejects Statement Responding to Demands, Will Hold Rally Today | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...unrestricted deficits persist, and increase in size, the Instruction Fund will be used up in a few years-and not for major new educational programs, but for bailing out the old ones...

Author: By Sciences FOR Financial affairs, | Title: The Mail PERSISTING DEFICITS | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

...still do have a strategic reserve when many similar institutions, and other faculties at Harvard, do not. On the other hand, it does seem clear to me that the legitimate pressures that increase our expenses seem stronger than our ability to produce offsetting income, and that this condition will persist at least for the next few years. If this is correct, then the erosion of the Instruction Fund to meet unrestricted operating deficits means the erosion of flexibility to meet educational challenge in the years just ahead...

Author: By Sciences FOR Financial affairs, | Title: The Mail PERSISTING DEFICITS | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

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