Word: richer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...museum world, some secrets are out even before they can be classified as secret, others lie quietly covered up for years. Last week New York's Metropolitan Museum gave a rousing demonstration of both truisms and, in the process, announced it was both richer by a handsome new acquisition and poorer by declaring one of its prized Greek treasures to be a fake...
...relative efficiency is decreasing, and they are in fields where outsiders can compete. It is certainly reasonable for a foundation executive to believe that all this would never have happened to steel if Andrew Carnegie were alive. But as a general proposition, it is inescapable that as we get richer there should be some things-and important things-that we are too rich to do cheaply. We must believe in progress-and we must never suppose that it hurts no one. Quotas and tariffs are not the answer...
...will go far to improve the U.S.'s worst international financial problem: the balance of payments. Aircraft make up the nation's second biggest export (after food), and the U.S. has sold $2.4 billion worth of commercial jets to foreign buyers. The SST market will be much richer-estimates run to $40 billion over 20 years. Hoping to crack it, the Soviets and a British-French consortium are already building SSTs, and the U.S. has to hustle to catch...
Last week, in an anniversary speech, Mobutu called the Congo "the rising star of Africa." With the mercenaries gone-they signed a pledge never again to fight in Africa-and the country on a more sensible course at least temporarily, the Congo finally has a chance. It is richer in natural resources-copper, tin, cobalt, industrial diamonds-than almost any other African nation. With the opportunity to exploit them in peace, it could become a model of prosperity rather than of chaos...
...story about the rugged little frontier farmer who tilled his fields from dawn to dusk and helped make America safe for democracy holds a fond place in most of our hearts. As America grew bigger and richer, the story continues, so did the farms, and the farmers. It is today's conventional wisdom that farmers wear gray flannel overalls and take care of their farms with three or four gleaming machines...