Word: unwantedness
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For a while, both sides were happy. Then, after 1965, Detroit's automakers launched an expansion in Canada to take advantage of lower labor costs and to help maintain the ratio in the face of an expected sales rise. The plants began turning out large numbers of autos, but...
As the nation's most densely populated state, New Jersey feels the impact of environmental problems more acutely than other states. Having cracked down on water polluters and acted to control auto-exhaust emissions, the state last week attacked noise pollution. Under a remarkable new law New Jersey authorized...
In an attempt to find a way out of this basic dilemma, Meadows postulated other scenarios. He assumed that there are still huge, undiscovered reserves of natural resources, say, under the oceans. Testing that possibility, Meadows' computer shows that industrialization will accelerate-and the resulting runaway pollution will overwhelm...
1970, is a fair example of Wiley's bricolage, with its rusty pickax snagged, like an unwanted anchor, on a knotted line from an improvised fishing pole, its ragged sheet of ox hide, its confusingly labeled ("Fresh Bait," "Nietzsche") objects perched on a raw wood shelf. They can only...
The incident goaded Mrs. Jacobs into organizing a campaign to overhaul the city's entire system of dealing with unwanted or delinquent children. She ran headlong into an ineluctable bureaucracy and conditions grimly reminiscent of Oliver Twist. The chief probation officer told her: "If anybody cared about these kids...