Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-denying care with which the Boston planners have tried to build a national model might be pitiful if the rest of the nation paid no attention. But the relative wave of excitement that has swept through the American medical community since the Harvard plan was announced suggests that Pollack may indeed be setting a pattern for national reform...
...happiness it must have a solid constant foundation in yourself before you can help the species be happy. All else is a confusion and death. Our symbolic means of communication sprang from confusion, not peace. I think symbols often create further chaos. Think of the Neanderthal. Communication by lovely wave-lengths and perhaps, as you mentioned, faith. No fear, no chaos. Perhaps it works that way." His voice trailed...
...crime wave is the most frightening symptom of breakdown and change, but it is only part of the capital's trauma. Washington is now 67% Negro-by far the highest ratio of any major U.S. city-and the slums have expanded as blacks arrived and whites departed for the suburbs. The flight of middle-class residents and their tax revenues has placed increased demands on municipal services for the poor and made them that much less adequate. Hardest hit is the public-school system, which some real estate agents now frankly warn home buyers to avoid...
...latter. To idealistic students and professors, ROTC has come to symbolize the university's "complicity" in alleged U.S. militarism, particularly the Viet Nam war. As such, it provides radical students with a highly visible target The ROTC, in fact, is a key target for the next wave of campus protests...
...Exchange Commission, former Idaho Congressman Hamer Budge complained last week that some complex forms of conglomerate financing offer only "an illusion of security." Testifying before a House subcommittee, he counseled investors against being misled by "apparent improvements" in the earnings of aggressive conglomerates. "Those who are engineering the present wave of takeovers," he said, "appear to find short-term profits so tempting that they ignore long-term risks." Later, Robert W. Haack, president of the New York Stock Exchange, told another House subcommittee that he is becoming "increasingly concerned" about the real worth of debt securities that are being offered...