Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of specialist is emerging in the Soviet Union: the America watcher. Though he is perhaps less interested in scholarly research than his Russia-watching counterpart at Harvard or Columbia, he wants to study his subject with the same wide-angle lens. Russia has always observed the U.S. with the help of spies and diplomats, who specialized in such vital subjects as U.S. technology, economy and weaponry. The newer America watchers are attempting to give Russia a more systematic picture of the U.S. as a complex, diverse and often contradictory nation. The view of the U.S. that results is perhaps...
...normal babies, cranial sutures (the spaces between the bones that make up the skull) are wide at birth and gradually narrow over the years. By the end of childhood the sutures close. But when a stunted child is being treated for deprivation dwarfism-and grows rapidly as a result-the sutures tend to widen instead. Usually, this is an ominous sign of rising fluid pressure within the skull, perhaps from a brain tumor...
...Federal court. Any subsequent violation of the order then incurs up to $5000 per day in civil penalties. Yet the F.T.C. insists upon its preference for "voluntary enforcement" of Commission recommendations. This is the only method consonant with the chairman's repeated declaration of his faith in the wide honesty of American business. In place of compulsive cease and desist orders, the F.T.C. more often issues industry-wide "guides" and "trade regulations." It has no way of demanding compliance with these voluntary orders, and usually is satisfied by an unsubstantiated assurance by the businessman that he has complied. The manufacturer...
...much, also, for Harvard-wide bonds. In exams, and only in exams, we share a common interest in Harvard; Harvard does roughly the same thing to all of us, and we all cope with what Harvard is doing to us in pretty much the same way. The spirit of football fails to reach a great many students; so does the spirit of confrontation politics. It is only in the exam period that all Harvard students are dealing with the Harvard, and for each, it is the worst of Harvard because it is a crisis; when the crisis subsides we make...
...years, Mrs. Castle is up against harder foes than pub owners or irate drivers. The problem of overlapping unions-there are 35 in the British auto industry, 16 in steel-leads to endless jurisdictional disputes. It also forces employers to bargain with many competing unions simultaneously and makes industry-wide negotiations almost impossible. Remarkably, unions are not bound by the agreements that they sign, and there are no legal provisions for cooling-off periods or court injunctions to forestall even the most outrageous strikes. As a result, more than 90% of Britain's strikes are called not by union...