Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American dropouts for the shooting of four-year-old children in My Lai. It needs little reflection to realize that they would have been full-grown and battle-hardened Viet Cong by the time Nixon's secret plan to end the Viet Nam war can be expected to succeed...
...once U.S. troops leave. Nixon seems convinced that Saigon can manage, but the Senator came away with the impression that, in any case, Nixon is determined to be out by 1972, leaving the South Vietnamese well supplied with U.S. arms and aid but otherwise on their own to succeed or fail-or strike a bargain with their enemies...
Much more is involved than putting filters on chimneys and car exhausts and building new sewage plants. As the decade advances, it will become clear that if the ecological effort is to succeed, much of today's existing technology will have to be scrapped and something new developed in its place. The gasoline-powered automobile, at present the chief polluter of the air, will be made clean or it will be banned from many urban areas-a threat that some carmakers already recognize (see ENVIRONMENT). Alternatives are electric or gas-turbine-powered autos. Increasingly, it will be seen that...
...many conventions that economists attend. McCracken has been monetarist-minded for years, and since he took office the council has begun running computer calculations about the future course of the U.S. economy based on monetary indicators. Friedman has even closer relations with Arthur Burns, Nixon's choice to succeed William McChesney Martin next month as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Friedman studied under Burns at Rutgers, and they have often spent evenings in animated discussion at Ely, Vt. where both own country homes...
...which computer technology is developing puts very serious constraints on us: its development in the next few years may have a very profound effect for a rather long future. Only the very active participation of social scientists right now will succeed in directing the development of computer technology in ways advantageous...