Word: planner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee's decisions at week's end, they seemed to boil down to another effort to deal with Russia's chronic economic problem: agriculture. Kicked upstairs to a party secretaryship was Supreme Economic Council Chairman (since 1963) Dmitry F. Ustinov. Replacing him was onetime State Planner Vladimir Novikov, 58. Ustinov's other post as First Deputy Premier went to a Byelorussian apparatchik, Kirill T. Mazurov, 50. Though Khrushchev's old ideological czar, Leonid Ilyichev, was also bumped aside, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev laid most emphasis on the agricultural mess...
...fully automated, fully rationalized world will be like. Of course it is necessary to feed and house people before attending to the neuroses of the well-fed and well-housed. But the wide psychological impact of automation cannot be isolated from its immediate material benefits, and the humane social planner must worry about both...
...revolutionary could hardly have intended, the Soviet economy has become today a battlefield of explosive ideas that threaten nearly every precept and practice of Communism in the past generation. Whether conservatively toeing their Marx or boldly advocating such heretical Western-style reforms as the primacy of profits, every important planner, apparatchik and economist in Russia is caught up in Communism's greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world...
...There is no doubt if you spend $10 million, you can turn Memorial Drive into an expressway, but do we need it?" asked Robert A. Boyer, a professional city planner. Boyer explained that merely building the underpasses, at an estimated cost of $7 million, would only serve to speed traffic at the three intersections involved. River St., Western Ave., and Bolyston St., and that other improvements--including the probably widening of the Drive and limiting access to the drive from the City's streets--would be required to increase traffic speed along the whole roadway...
...burden of added numbers, rather than forcing down academic standards, has raised them. "The big drop in quality that many educators were predicting ten years ago just never took place," says Curriculum Planner A. Harry Passow of Columbia's Teachers College. Instead, the average performance of junior and senior high school teen-agers on many tests has been gradually rising, reports E. F. Lindquist, president of the Measurement Research Center at the University of Iowa. Even though the exams are tougher than a decade ago, and even though seven times as many students (1,500,000 this year...