Word: saving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most controversial projects is the swing-wing F-l l l aircraft, which he promoted as an Air Force-Navy plane that would save $1 billion or more through "commonality." The Air Force model is turning out well enough, but the Navy is still dissatisfied with its overweight version, and the cost is far above original estimates. The computer approach occasionally cut too close to the bone, as when Army requests for helicopters in 1963 and 1964 were reduced, only to cause shortages in Viet Nam soon after...
...come on, California," wailed an editorial in the Montgomery Advertiser-Journal. "Let our people go. Are there not 66,059 patriots among you who will step forward to save the republic-before Alabama collapses through chronic absenteeism...
...hundred dollars to help the Garcias with hospital and funeral expenses, the two women, at last count, had collected $14,200 from more than 1,500 donors. Mrs. Kindermann's fifth-grade class needed no prompting to write Primitivo in the hospital. "I am thanking you for saving Mrs. Kindermann's life and her baby," wrote one girl. "Our room is learning Spanish. Our city is not that bad, but the main thing is, get well. I hope you pass all your tests so that you can become an American." Three operations failed to save him, however...
...EDUCATION. Because it has great social consequence, is economically productive and the key to solving the nation's racial problems, education should be handled with extreme care in the effort to save money. University of Chicago Economist Theodore Schultz calculates that the steadily improving education of the U.S. labor force has increased real national income by one-fifth. But Congress is imprudently making some penny-wise reductions in worthwhile federal programs. Example: in fiscal 1966, the Government supported 15,000 graduate students, many of whom intended to become college professors; this year the number is down...
...worked well. "The contractor and the architect should work together. You save time and money and have a better building," said Andrews. Changes which the contractor finds are necessary can then be made "without all the red tape that is usually involved." Andrews hopes Harvard will allow the same architect-contractor relationship, though he thinks the University will choose the more conventional course...