Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shyest and most unpretentious of the five grandsons-of the magnate who founded Standard Oil and created one of America's largest fortunes, John Davison Rockefeller 3rd always tried to stay in the background. While his brothers pursued more public careers, he devoted himself full time to the family's philanthropies, which annually donate millions to promote social welfare, health care, the arts and education around the world...
...Virginia.' Said he: "He endures in what he stood for, in what he did, in the inspiration and guidance he has given us. Let me say to you, my father, that you helped shape a country and a world in your own quiet way. You have set a standard for our family and for each of us as individuals. Let me say to you that we are strong and we are ready to carry that standard forward; that we know and accept our responsibility. Rest in peace. You have blessed and touched this world in good ways that will...
...Russians' roots were broken when the writers, scholars and poets were left out of the Soviet culture, Keenan said. "They were replaced with a bland, Russo-centered standard form of education," he added...
...best-dressed lists "on nothing a year" as a fashion editor for Vogue magazine, choosing simple but striking clothes that marked her quiet sense of personal style. In 1947 she married William S. Paley, chairman of the board of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and came to embody a standard of elegance by which social functions and fashion trends were judged...
Even if he fulfills his goals, the prospects for the economy are touch and go. The standard forecast is that growth of real G.N.P. will slow to about 4% in the current quarter and 2% or 3% in the fourth?partly because the recent pace just cannot be sustained, partly because inflation will weaken the economy. Real G.N.P. is expected to be essentially flat in the first half of 1979. It is anyone's guess whether the slowdown will fulfill the definition of recession: two straight quarters of decline in real G.N.P. and mounting unemployment...