Word: spurts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solution lies in raising land taxes. Southfield, Mich., has just demonstrated that the idea works. Five years ago, the city was listed as a depressed area. Then it boosted the tax on land and cut the tax on buildings by reassessing them. In the resulting building spurt, Southfield has been constructing office space faster than neighboring Detroit, a city 30 times its size. Said Assessor G. Ted Gwartney: "All we had to do was throw off the shackles...
Astronaut's-Eye View. Early in the mission, the astronauts trained a movie camera on the discarded third-stage S-4B rocket while it orbited near by and recorded the sudden and startling spurt of flame as its engine was fired to shove it out of the way and into a permanent orbit around the sun. In a sequence showing Spider undocking from Gumdrop, Spider moved slowly away and then began a smooth and graceful demonstration of its maneuverability...
Miscalculations of the rival's intentions are common. In 1960, there was fear of a "missile gap." In 1965, the U.S. concluded that the Russians had given up quantitative arms competition, only to see them spurt forward later. And before leaving office, McNamara acknowledged that, overall, the U.S. had spent too much on weaponry during his tenure because of mistaken estimates of Russian intentions. However, the Russians have accelerated their buildup, tripling their supply of land-based missiles in little more than two years. The U.S. remains ahead in overall nuclear-delivery capability, but Russia continues to close...
...this century the population of the U.S. will swell by 100 million people. Most of them will crowd into the nation's urban areas, which already house 70% of all Americans on a minuscule 10% of the land. The implications of such an enormous spurt, in terms of urban sprawl, congestion and the very quality of life are obvious-and appalling...
Harvard erased the lead with a spurt at the end of the period to tie the score but could not find the mark in the final period, sending the game into overtime...