Word: sustainable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parties. Says one member of the set: "What we have evolved is a ritual. It sets up a rhythm where we are all available to each other. It's rather as if all of us belong to a family." Adds another friend without elaboration: "You can't sustain that very long without its being very destructive...
...reluctance to raise its own discounts and add more upward pressure to housing costs results in a rush to dump loans on Fannie Mae. The association's resources get swamped, and it is forced to curtail purchases just when they are needed most to sustain housebuilding. When Fannie Mae moves to charge an increased discount, private lenders demand still larger ones. In its effort to conserve dwindling funds during the 1966 credit squeeze, Fannie Mae refused to buy loans larger than $15,000-a decision which Lapin says led to "pernicious inequities and market distortions" because "high-cost areas...
...touched off 5,000 secondary explosions and more than 2,000 fires in the immediate vicinity of Khe Sanh, indicating that ammunition and gasoline caches were being hit hard. In all, the Air Force estimates that the bombing destroyed 3,500 tons of Giap's supplies-enough to sustain a full division in combat for a month...
Charcoal-Filtered. Although 1,200 lbs. to 1,500 lbs. of stored water would normally be necessary to sustain a crew of four on a 60-day mission, the California students embarked with only 80 lbs.- plus a 200-lb. retrieval system that recovers water from both urine and moisture in the cabin atmosphere. As urine is collected, it is pumped over an array of felt wicks. Air is drawn into the system from the cabin, heated to more than 110° F. and blown across the soggy wicks. The heated air, containing cabin moisture, picks up additional moisture from...
...previous record of $17.5 billion in the first quarter of 1966. In that seemingly positive development there was a sharply negative point. According to President Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers, that 10%-a-year growth rate is about 21 times as much as the economy can sustain under stable conditions. "It's like trying to pour 10 oz. of water into an 8-oz. bottle," says CEA Chairman Arthur Okun. "You get water all over the table...