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...usually reserved and retiring Stevenson is especially concerned about deterioration in an area in which America has always excelled: technological progress. Says he: "The vanquished of World War II−Japan and Germany−have overtaken us. We and the British are ossified by habit, by powerful interests, and are losing our capacity to win in this highly competitive new environment. And if we can't win, we lose the source of our political authority." He urges universities, businesses and Government to enter into a partnership to improve technology. "Our most competitive industries are the most technology-intensive...
...tides waves and ocean currents, as well as oil from tar sands and shale. These sources stand to meet only a small part of the country's energy needs in the foreseeable future because the technologies are expensive, risks are high and immediate rewards are small. Progress may well require more Government grants, loan guarantees and tax incentives. What is needed to ease the nation's dependence on erratic foreign sources of oil is spending, sacrifice and compromise...
...pool that will back the new ecu. In short, the ecu will be partly supported by gold. Laments one discouraged U.S. Treasury official: "The drive to demonetize gold has clearly suffered a major reversal. In just one year the weakness of the dollar has wiped out all the progress that we made in two decades...
CRIMSON SPLASHES: Despite a disappointing 1-8 record, Walsh said she was pleased with the progress her swimmers had made over the course of the season, especially after four of the team's top performers dropped from competitive swimming at the start of the year...
...type that usually summons hospital doctors. The microphone wired his voice throughout the three-story brownstone on Beacon St., the Boston Church of Scientology. The building is not far from the Boston Common, where scientologists often greet passersby with free personality tests, designed to measure "deviation from and progress toward optimum survival" and allow one to discover the "exact barriers to a greater self-confidence...