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...citizens). Khrushchevian "goulash"-the consumer goods that all Eastern European governments now crave-is evident but still in short supply. Because of economic planning that, despite reforms, is still harshly controlled from the top, there may be a glut of pineapple and an absence of avocado. Shoe prices can soar as high in Hungary as a week's wages ($33) and fall correspondingly
...Baltimore Developer James Rouse. "The best prospect we have is that we will become a nation of Los Angeleses." More than 800 U.S. cities have modernized their housing and zoning codes in the past few years, and Houston is now the only major city that has allowed itself to soar and sprawl without zoning controls of any kind...
Cooper has let his imagination soar even farther. Using different radii and gravitational forces in his formulas, he has laid out the mathematical groundwork for extraterrestrial travel networks. According to his calculations, straight-line tunnel travel between any two surface locations would be 53 minutes on the moon, 49 on Mars...
...reluctant to add $165 to each student's expenses, she increases the expenses of one fourth of the girls by $434, and throws in two unwanted meals to justify such an increase. Moreover, she overlooks the fact that the room-and-board of dormitory residents would not have to soar to $1335 if the off-campus residents were charged proportionately more for the greater benefits which they receive. Radcliffe loses $41 per year on dormitory students and $340 per year on off-campus students. This disparity could be cut down in other ways than charging a flat room-and-board...
...high school get its brain-busting math and science courses off the ground and make them soar through the students' minds? The Atlanta public schools have blue-skied a wingding answer: they are teaching the kids to fly airplanes. Last week the most advanced of 45 boys and seven girls in the courses offered by three Atlanta high schools began flying a new Piper Cherokee 140 lent to the schools by the manufacturer...