Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plainly, it would be a mistake to let the momentum of aid slip further. Over the past few years, 41 poor countries have managed to achieve yearly growth rates of 2% or better in per-capita income, despite sharp population increases. Pearson's goal is a growth rate of 6% throughout the next decade, and "self-sustaining" expansion for most of the underdeveloped countries by the year 2000. If the report's proposed aid increases are adopted, and if population growth can be held down-two enormous ifs -they might make it. If not, Pearson's "village...
...world-view many students seek must be in sharp contrast to the prevailing scientific world-view, which is enshrined in official educational epistemology and exalted in modern society. Today's education breeds the sort of scientific experts who can't abide ambiguity, or anything that won't yield to scientific explanation. There is great need for people to be exactly the opposite...
After the meeting, Dean Ford admitted he saw a considerable amount of rancour among the Faculty, although he added that some of the splits of last Spring now seemed less sharp...
...reporters went away disappointed. No open revolt occurred at the meeting. There were, however, enough sharp voices of Faculty discontent to indicate that some very bitter fighting may be expected in the future, when the Faculty takes up two touchy questions: how it will discipline its members, and how it is to be governed (the Fainsod report...
...Rather than create illusions about whom you ally with, you have to be very sharp," Sargent said. "When you issue statements that appeal to the lowest common denominator, you don't advance the struggle-groups such as these (the Moratorium and the SMC)-have killed the anti-war movement in the past; they see these demonstrations in themselves as solutions, and think it's enough to act only once every six months...