Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crowded Dashboard. The Fitch Inertial Barrier System is designed to reduce damage from head-on collisions with fixed objects along the highway. Its principle is well known to operators of beach buggies: soft sand slows a vehicle down. In this system, large plastic drums of sand are grouped in front of bridge abutments, overpass piers, large sign stanchions and similar highway danger points. The drums break when hit by a speeding vehicle, absorbing much of the impact and scattering sand beneath the wheels to slow it further. Cheap and easy to install and replace, the Inertial Barrier System was invented...
...Auto-Ceptor system faces a two-to three-year delay before it sees even limited use. Major problem: finding space for the balloons in the already crowded dashboard area. Fitch's sand barrels, on the other hand, are being tested by the Connecticut State Highway Department, and New York and other states are interested in them...
Mills also faults the Administration's approach to loophole closing as merely papering over tax-system defects that ought to be attacked through more basic changes. The Administration concedes that it has made only a "first stage" effort, to be followed by fuller reform recommendations by the Treasury this fall. Though it disappoints tax-reform idealists, the modest first stage balances the claims of opposing interests deftly enough to make it politically palatable. It also goes much further toward genuine tax reform than almost anyone had expected...
...including a number of American college students-who are trying to salvage what they can from Marxism after its corruption by Soviet totalitarianism. To Djilas, the two are inseparable. For him, Stalin was not a ruthless aberration but the inevitable consummation of Marxism: theory made practice. The ironclad Marxist system is all but useless for historical interpretation, thinks Djilas. It endures only as a revolutionary ideology promising instant transformation to those who are desperate, impoverished or ignorant of history...
Penn, on the other hand, has made a number of line-up shifts in its two races. Coach Joe Burk rates his rowers on a point system depending on their performance during practices, and those with the highest point total over the last 50 races start on the varsity...