Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear rejection by the members of his own party, John Lindsay chastized New Yorkers for allowing their city to be "captured by the forces of reaction and fear." Reaction? We're reacting, all right-to streets that are dirtier, to air that is fouler, to a public-school system breaking down at almost every level, to a three-year 100% increase in the number of persons on welfare and to skyrocketing taxes levied in order to keep the whole mess of an incompetent administration "moving". Afraid? Who us? Every ten hours in our "fun" city, there is one murder...
...Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which outlawed racial segregation in the public schools. Separate schools for Negroes were "inherently unequal," ruled the court, because the system generates feelings of inferiority in the black children "that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." Brown helped to prepare public opinion for a long series of civil rights bills and later court rulings that enforced laws against discrimination in voting, public accommodations and housing...
...Courts encounter some problems for which they can supply no solution." Later he remarked: "What if we ordered the House to seat Powell and the House refused? Could we have sent an army up to Capitol Hill to enforce the order?" To Warren, that was beside the point. "Our system of government requires that federal courts on occasion interpret the Constitution in a manner at variance with the construction given the document by another branch," he said in the Powell case. "The alleged conflict that such an adjudication may cause cannot justify the courts' avoiding constitutional responsibility...
Astronomers have long known pre cisely how fast the earth moves as it cir cles around its own star, the sun (66,500 m.p.h.), and how fast the solar system revolves around the core of its own galaxy, the Milky Way (481,000 m.p.h...
Volume is a major reason for the low cost of mobile homes, which constitute the only truly industrialized housing available on a large scale in the U.S. today. Skyline's nonunionized workers commonly earn up to $12,000 a year because base pay is increased by an incentive system that keeps the men on the run along the production lines...