Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction is understandable. De spite the acknowledged importance of TV in the life of a modern child, remarkably little study has been done in the field. To draw any meaningful conclusions, researchers must first find a comparable group of children who have not been exposed to TV; but alas, in the U.S. there is no such group. What studies have been made are largely peripheral. Yes, Video Boy devotes half an hour less to playtime than did the pre-TV child. No, TV does not discourage reading, but if anything, stimulates it. Yes, TV does help develop such prereading skills...
Within less than a decade of finishing his conservatory training, Mehta has pushed so far toward the top of his profession that Philadelphia's Ormandy can say: "In spite of his youth, he has very much arrived. I consider him the finest of the young conductors." That Mehta has done this at so young an age illustrates the striking departure that has occurred from the pattern of a generation ago. Conductors traditionally rose through an arduous apprenticeship with provincial opera houses and orchestras, rarely surfacing internationally until they were in their 40s and 50s. "Mehta," says his friend Israeli...
...food has to be shipped in from Winnipeg 400 air miles away. Contact with the outside world is through old shows on cable TV, three-day-old newspapers, or an unreliable air service that does the best it can with aging DC-3s and DC-4s. Not surprisingly, in spite of weekly wages that start at $160-and some of the best fishing in Canada-the turnover rate is a high 85%. "If we could get it down to 20%," says John McCreedy, a onetime professional hockey player with the Toronto Maple Leafs who is Inco's regional manager...
...jobs they are being trained to hold in the future. How can a student who says to himself that he must go to jail in order to live morally in his own country ever see himself as filling a position of responsibility and power in the future? In spite of this, the student elite is told time and time again that they will man strategic positions of power in both the government and business of the future...
...Meeting to ponder the U.S. economy, twelve experts gathered under the auspices of the National Industrial Conference Board, emerged with predictions of a brisk first half, a slower second half, and for the year as a whole a satisfactory expansion in spite of unsettled periods. In summary, like 1967, it will be "another year of worrisome, uneasy prosperity...