Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alone with his elemental fear of death, modern man is especially troubled by the prospect of a meaningless death and a meaningless life-the bleak offering of existentialism. "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem," wrote Albert Camus, "and that is suicide." In other words, why stay alive in a meaningless universe? The existentialist replies that man must live for the sake of living, for the things he is free to accomplish. But despite volumes of argumentation, existentialism never seems quite able to justify this conviction on the brink of a death that is only a trap door...
...could do just to stay on the ground. Trying for a record last month, Craig discovered himself airborne at 600 m.p.h. Both his braking parachutes blew clear off the car, and he finally managed to bring the runaway machine to a stop just 300 ft. short of the same salt pond in which he had drowned its daddy. Shaken but unhurt, Breedlove riveted two stabilizing wings on Spirit's nose, and last week he was back for another try. Waving to his crew, Breedlove pushed the throttle forward, and Spirit shot off across the flats, trailing a huge rooster...
Many economists predicted only a few months ago that unemployment would stay high simply because the U.S. work force had been expanding as rapidly as the economy. Now they find themselves surprised by how quickly the situation has changed. From a rate of 4.9% in April, unemployment dipped to 4.5% in July, 4.4% in September. Last week the Commerce Department reported that it fell further to an eight-year low of 4.3% in October - while employment rose to 72.5 million jobs, a record for the month...
...computer has become a main stay of big business in the U.S., but most small and medium-sized companies still find it too expensive for normal use. Last week two of the biggest com puter makers, General Electric and Control Data Corp., introduced new systems that will offer the small business man the same computer advantages as the biggest corporation. Their move to what is called "time sharing" is part of a growing trend to market the com puter's abilities much as a utility sells light...
Center Point for 170 Million. The key to Alsatian prosperity is, of course, the 1957 Treaty of Rome, which set up the Common Market and removed a Maginot Line of trade barriers that sat between France and its neighbors. French firms, actually encouraged by the government to stay away from the danger zone between the wars, began to discover the province and its opportunities: ample land and labor force, the broad highway of the Rhine, convenient location...