Word: rising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Owing to the rise of service industries alongside production firms, the number of white-collar employees has long since topped the number of blue-collar workers. Well over 60% of all non-farm families own the homes they live in; in 1917, the figure was 40%. Almost 80% of U.S. families now own an automobile, and one in five families has at least two; in 1917 only 5% had a car. Only 1% of U.S. farms was electrified in 1917; today more than 99% of farms and all other homes have Edison's bulb, not to mention Sarnoff...
...material rise is only part of the story. There have been cultural gains as well. With paperbacks in every drugstore, reading has soared. Thirty thousand titles were published last year, a far cry from the limited book list of 1917. Magazine circulation has multiplied tenfold in 50 years; each month, an estimated 1.2 billion copies of 650 magazines flow out to the farthest corners of the country. Education's reach has lengthened immensely. Early in the century, perhaps 4% of young Americans between 18 and 21 were in colleges and universities; now, roughly 45% are. Last year colleges conferred...
...incentives be determined by an objective board after a given weapons contract had been completed. The more efficient the performance the higher would be the profit. Furthermore, they advised that past performance be taken into account when awarding new contracts. High-performance contractors would be rewarded by a rapid rise in their share of the defense awards...
...individual freedom and expression. Ideology, long the great bugaboo of Soviet life, is being sacrificed to pragmatism in order to get things done. And the regime is facing a growing gap between Russia's government and its citizens, brought about by the onslaught of technology and the rise of new and striving classes in the "classless society...
...naively dreamed of a society governed by goodness, set up to eliminate selfishness and devoted to build ing a paradise for the humble. "Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser and subtler," said Leon Trotsky. "His body will become more harmonized, his voice more musical. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, a Marx...