Word: result
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious as the Enterprise fire was, it could well have been far worse. The Navy had learned from tragic experience to be prepared for such a crisis. In 1966, a fire aboard U.S.S. Oriskany claimed the lives of 43 men, and the 1967 Forrestal blaze killed 134. As a result, Enterprise had been staffed with professional firefighters. Better equipment was provided, including improved water pumps, hoses that are less prone to break and special units that combine a chemical called "Purple K" and "light water" to produce a substance that smothers the fire with foam. Most important, the Enterprise crew...
...pessimism about the limitations of material progress, which the paradoxes of the American experience have lately pointed up, it is unlikely that the world will abandon its pursuit. The present rebellion by the blacks and the young could still fragment American society beyond anything now imagined possible. The end result will more likely be a heightening consciousness, a raising of national sights. The new challenging target will be progress, understood in a broader and more sophisticated way to include not only materialist means but also the will and perception to put them to more moral and more civilizing ends...
...potential in private capital is enormous, and both businessmen and bureaucrats must work to exploit it. Taking advantage of low-interest loans from the Federal Housing Administration, the Boston Gas Co., for example, provided additional capital for the rehabilitation of 3,000 apartments in the Roxbury ghetto. The result was not only better housing for several thousand people, but also the acquisition by Bos ton Gas of 3,000 gas-using customers and a valuable tax-depreciation advantage. The return was not so great as a similar investment might have made elsewhere, but the les son was clear: a profit...
...which offers 90% federal funding for expressways, the Government destroyed any possible balance between cars and other forms of transportation, such as subways and monorails. Though subways might be more efficient, cities have in effect been offered expressways virtually free. The lure has usually proved irresistible, and as a result cities?not to mention the countryside?have been torn apart. The car has not only wrecked the city physically but poisoned its air as well. Auto exhaust fumes account for about 60% of air pollution in the U.S., even with the addition of exhaust-control devices...
...declared that he would not review the show. "Apparently," he sniffed, it had "no art." Mayor John Lindsay charged that an essay by a 17-year-old Harlem schoolgirl, reprinted in the catalogue and containing a remarkably mature discussion of anti-Semitism among Negroes, was "racist." Apparently as a result of his charges, 60 guests invited to the opening canceled...