Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maintaining an Image. That was hard language, especially since the "Made in U.S.A." label has won worldwide respect-but it was buttressed by some hard statistics. By its sheer size, the U.S. leads the world in total exports, and still it sells only 4% of its gross national product abroad, v. 9% for Japan, 16% for West Germany, 19% for Sweden. In the face of increased competition by Japan, Britain and the Common Market, the U.S. share of world exports has shriveled from 26% in 1953 to 20%. Moreover, only U.S. exports tied to foreign aid are actually increasing...
...seems like sheer lunacy for Mao to challenge the two greatest powers on earth at a time when China's industry and agriculture are still staggering from the disasters of the Great Leap Forward and before he has the armaments to engage in any large-scale contest. But it is entirely possible that Mao may have come to feel that the only way to break China's economic fetters, and still abide by his harsh ideological tenets, lies in a dramatic change in the international political order...
Because of their sheer number, Manhattan's seven dailies are particularly vulnerable to strike damage. There are simply not enough readers to support them all; only two of the seven, the Times and the Daily News, consistently make money. And by publishers' standards, the timing of New York's strike could not have been worse. Only a few months after the papers got back into print, they faced the summer doldrums, that slack vacation period when both circulation and advertising fall as shops close, Broadway burns dimly, and cliff dwellers by the thousands quit the town...
...understanding of the land itself, we have come to accept with enthusiasm the unprofessional, unappreciative, unskillful butchery of the land that goes under the name of planning. Here we have a tremendous opportunity to point people's tastes and expectations in another direction. And we can do it?the sheer size of the place makes almost anything possible...
...powers are wider than ever, but its chief trustbuster promises to be more selective in wielding them. Antitrust enforcement has always been unpredictable at best, but until recently it concentrated its fire on such common practices as price fixing, market splitting or the domination of a nationwide market by sheer size. No longer; nowadays, antitrust frequently means antimerger. Many businessmen are confused and worried about two court decisions in the past year that have given the Government broad authority to block virtually any corporate merger that so much as threatens to lessen competition even on a local level. "The only...