Word: reductionisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Inventory Recession." Economists long looked forward to at least some slow real growth in production of goods and services late this year. Now they doubt it, primarily because business inventories have been piling up at an unhealthy clip. A rise of $10 billion in inventories for a full year is...
Even if the Soviet Union and the U.S. agree on new restrictions on their nuclear arms at the continuing Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (which after four years have not yet achieved any reduction in atomic arsenals), nuclear technology and resources are now so plentiful that almost any country determined to...
The heated arguments at Bucharest came as a surprise to the conference planners. Several preliminary U.N. meetings had been held to work out a detailed draft of a "plan of action." The plan called for a reduction of birth rates that would be proportionate to a country's population...
> Charging for artillery support. Two years ago, it was common practice to fire off 20 artillery rounds for every one round fired by the Communists, thus generating a salable mountain of brass shell casings. With the reduction of American military aid, the Saigon command usually limits each big gun to...
Do all this, says Rand, and the number of vehicle-miles traveled daily in Los Angeles will drop 30% by 1977. That reduction, together with Detroit's new emission-control equipment, will cut the volume of air pollutants to 500 tons per day. The hitch is, the report concedes...