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...reaches the threshold of grown-up logic as early as seven and usually by eleven. Before that point, he may think that water becomes "more to drink" when it is poured from a short, squat glass into a tall, thin one with the same capacity. The reason for this stubborn misconception is that the child is paying attention only to static features of his environment, not to transformations. Now, at the age Piaget calls that of "concrete" intellectual activity, the child can deduce that pouring does not change the quantity of the water. He has begun to reason...
...most stubborn problem of all is agriculture. Seventeen months ago, a new agricultural policy was introduced that called for a single six-nation market with uniform prices for most farm products. Hailed as the Common Market's finest achievement, the policy has not worked as well in practice as it did on paper. French devaluation and German revaluation shook the price structure. Instead of eliminating marginal farmers, the Six have kept them in business through a tangled network of supports and tariffs...
HELLER: I agree that we have passed the peak of inflationary pressures. But there is some evidence that, compared with previous years, inflation is more stubborn now. I'm not sure that prices are responding to anti-inflationary policies as quickly as we had hoped...
...selection did not come as much of a-surprise to most of those who saw Saturday's game. The Tiger attack operated almost to perfection while rolling over a usually stubborn defense. Harvard coach John Yoviesin said. "I've never seen a team execute offensively as Princeton did in the first half in my 12 years here...
Having invented urban sprawl, Californians may be among the first to find ways of revitalizing and rebuilding the inner cities. Los Angeles, with its stubborn refusal to invest in efficient rapid transit, may yet be obliged to give up the automobile and go to subways; for a model, there will be San Francisco's computer-controlled BART (Bay Area Transit) system, which is, after many years, now within reach of completion...