Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought Adams. He had just arrived at a critical conclusion. The transportation policy of the previous decade had been based on the flawed idea of persuading Americans to get out of their cars and use other forms of transportation. The data before him showed it could not be done short of a threat of extinction. Also, his probings of the auto industry convinced him that there was more research in sales and promotion than in the mechanics of making cars. "Go back to 'cut and try' engineering," he told his astonished audience six months ago. "Revive Henry Ford...
...this: in meetings with foreign businessmen, officials will pick an opportune moment to mention that "donations" to China's modernization effort would be welcome. What sort of donations? Well, the officials explain, our factory-or municipal bureau or provincial trading office, as the case may be-is desperately short of transportation, for instance, and a reliable car might be most appreciated. The car, either new or secondhand, is duly acquired in Hong Kong and shipped inland. Technically, it belongs to the factory; in practice, it usually becomes the private property of one or two high officials...
...gone too far for the Administration to do much of anything. The cooling economy cannot easily be turned around-nor, in fact, should it be. Congressional enactment of mandatory wage and price controls remains a remote possibility if inflation shows another alarming burst as the economy winds down. But, short of that, recession seems about the only option still open to the Administration to curb the nation's crippling consumption of oil and to slow the price surge...
...course on women in modern European society and politics taught by Mary Nolan, assistant professor of History, a Government course on the politics of women's liberation given by Ethel Klein, a newly-hired junior faculty member, assistant professor of English Heather McClave's course on women short story writers, and two Afro-American studies courses by the acting chairman of the department, Chidi Ikonne, on the black woman as subject and as author in fiction...
...issue has not helped the fundraising efforts at the K-School. "For the administration, faculty and students not to recognize the importance of external donors to the University and to be appreciative of their generosity and to recognize that this generosity can be given or taken away is very short-sighted," he says. He adds, "One of every three dollars on education spent at Harvard comes from the generosity of some donor, either directly or from endowment income." There is a widespread syndrome among students and faculty at Harvard to be ungrateful, while expecting the world to be deferential, Allison...