Word: prods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's family-assistance plan to provide a minimum income of $2,400 for a family of four is abandoned; no money for it is included in the budget. The Administration will also try to prod local communities into pruning relief rolls. The budget projects a saving of $592 million from stopping payments to "ineligibles...
...Harvard, while more students are admitted, the faculty is frozen. Foreseeable budget deficits will prod the Administration to make Faculty outs, only to worsen even more the student-faculty ratio and enlarge already crowded classrooms. The Budget Office may find solace in increasing the total number of students but the educational quality of Harvard can only suffer...
...prone to nitpicking and preoccupied with criticizing news judgment rather than errors of fact. But Abraham Kalish, 66, the organization's executive secretary and former feature writer for the U.S. Information Agency, insists: "All we're interested in is accuracy-to be an ever-present prod to the news media so they will strive to be sure their stories are accurate...
...report insist that exponential growth is also possible in the technology that enables society to utilize new resources, wring more food from the land and curb pollution. In the resources field, some experts sketch this scenario: long before resources run out, scarcities would force price boosts. The expense would prod industrialists and consumers to substitute one material for another, develop recycling techniques to use existing supplies more efficiently, and redouble efforts to find ways of using materials-for example, oil-bearing shale-that were previously uneconomic or technically impossible to exploit. Before long, commercial harnassing of thermonuclear fusion could make...
...result was formation of a six-reporter "Brandegee goose-'em committee," the purpose of which was to "keep editors on their toes, to keep them mad and unsatisfied." That restless spirit has been typical of the Globe in recent years, and this week the paper got another prod toward self-improvement: the death of its traditional rival, the Herald Traveler...