Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berle deplored the fact that the vast increase in man's power accomplished by the scientist has not been accompanied by any attempts to analyze and understand the manner is which he uses that power, as exemplified by his "politico-social-economic organization...
This remarkably peaceful transfer of power was a tribute to an entire nation's controlled anxieties, to the sophistication of politicians skilled at maneuvering to the danger point but not beyond it, and to the correctness of the difficult man who asked France for vast powers...
...other aircraft. In the Super Sabre, Brett could have wafted into weightlessness by flying high and level, faster than sound, and pushing the plane's nose up into the Keplerian trajectory, in which centrifugal force exactly cancels the earth's gravitational pull. Despite his plane's vast speed reserve, he chose to work at lower altitudes, enter the parabola from a power dive (see diagram). Over "hot mikes" (both microphones always switched on, so that each of us could hear the other's breathing), he asked simply: "Ready...
...reason for this disparity, says Wernick, is the vast increase in so-called "nonproduction" workers, which corporations often fail to take into account. Between 1947 and 1957, nonproduction workers increased by 1,400,000, or 55%, v. only a 125,000, or 1%, increase in production-line workers. Salary payments jumped even faster (see chart...
...women in the Kinsey survey, one out of every ten became pregnant either before marriage or after divorce. Almost 18 out of 20 such pregnancies ended in abortion. How and where the women got the abortions was not always clear, but the vast majority (17 out of 20) told interviewers that they had it done by "a physician." Of 1.044 abortions reported, eleven out of 20 were obtained by married women...