Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report recognizes that while a sharp reduction in Britain's population would reduce its need for imports, Britain's ability to export would also be reduced. "It would be premature to assume that the balance of payments problem will necessarily constitute a serious argument against a moderate increase in numbers...
...report is also concerned with relative reproduction trends of various groups within the population. It accepts evidence that intelligence is inherited. Consequently it views with some alarm the fact that less intelligent families reproduce at a higher rate than more intelligent families. To combat this trend it proposes two forms of government action: 1) using the National Health Service to give more birth control information to the lower income groups, and 2) tax exemptions and other incentives to encourage the professional classes to have more children...
Except for Roman Catholic opposition on the detail of birth control information, the report was received last week with general acclaim in Britain. It has cleared the air of alarmist thinking, avoided absurd excesses of "population planning" (see cut) and made a start toward public policy on a problem that faces many nations-how to induce the more intelligent groups to have enough children to reproduce themselves...
...openly of fiery ash and lava. But a few volcanoes work under cover. Their molten lava never reaches the surface, but quietly pushes up the earth's rock layers as water from a burst pipe raises a blister in an asphalt pavement. Last week scientists were studying a report by Professor Hidezo Tanakadate, geographer at Tokyo's Hosei University, on the only undercover volcano whose birth and growth have been observed by scientific...
With the recent publication of a 390-page report on religious freedom, written by a six-man "Dissenter Law Committee" after five years of hearings and deliberations, Sweden has now made a move in the direction of greater religious freedom. The committee's recommendations, due for careful study before introduction into Parliament next spring, contain six major points...