Word: totals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electronic hands. Alas, not so. The computer ordered new supplies when the warehouse was already fully stocked, billed some customers even though they placed no orders, charged others $39 for products that were marked only $3.90. Before long, the computer turned Rodman's once orderly operation into almost total chaos. Teams of IBM technicians spent six months fixing the malfunctioning brain, but by then Rodman had lost a number of accounts and was knee-deep in problems. "The computer," he says, "almost put us out of business." A Boston federal jury convicted the computer and awarded Rodman...
...language. Yes, he says, children suffering from the most severe forms of schizophrenia can be cured. Yes, he says, children who have been judged unalterably delinquent or diagnosed as mentally deficient can grow up into mature, functioning adults-even into Harvard professors. Bettelheim's principal prescription is almost total positivism. Whatever his patients ask, he usually says...
...himself with The 400 Blows, a title derived from a French slang expression "faire les 400 coups," meaning "to go on a spree." The movie told the mordant story of a disintegrating childhood that was half autobiography and half poetry. Truffaut later observed that "a director's total work is a diary, kept over a lifetime." This first entry revealed hints of the style that was to follow: despair that could add up to an affirmation of life, poignance that never stooped to self-pity, Mack Sennett farce that could dive into tragedy and come up smiling...
...measures will affect at least 10% of France's total imports and a far bigger share of its exports. They include ceilings on such goods from abroad as autos, trucks, electrical appliances, textiles and a number of steel products. The subsidies come in the form of more liberal government credit for manufacturers engaged in exporting and indemnities to compensate for recent increases in their wage costs. At the same time, French Finance Minister Maurice Couve de Murville moved to curb inflationary pressures at home by warning that "severe measures" would be taken against excessive price increases...
...Total Freeze. The French move was meant to minimize the jolt of this week's EEC action. Since its creation under the Treaty of Rome in 1957, the Common Market has gradually eliminated 85% of all internal tariffs. Now the last 15% will disappear. At the same time, the EEC will adopt common external tariffs, which will be automatically reduced by 40% in accordance with the Kennedy Round agreements. Also taking effect will be an agricultural common market with subsidized, uniform prices within the EEC and joint levies on imports from outside...