Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best, debatable. Moreover, cost effectiveness is not a criticism that can or should be applied to advanced technology. Who would have put money on atomic energy in 1940? A nation which concentrates on the present will have no future; in statesmanship, as in everyday life, wisdom lies in the right division of resources between today's demands and tomorrow's needs...
...news about the state of Europe's lower clergy from a poll that had been taken to help in their deliberations. Dutch Monsignor Jan Dellepoort reported that in every European nation priests felt like "sacred outsiders, estranged from society." Many were undergoing grave crises of conscience over the wisdom or necessity of celibacy. The bishops were also aware of figures that the Vatican had confirmed a week earlier: in 1968 alone, 2,263 priests had requested release from the obligation of celibacy...
Since then, Nzeru-the word means "wisdom" in the Chichewa language-has produced 35,000 radios of Kroeker's design, and employment has grown to more than 50. In 1968, the company earned about $60,000 on sales of $210,000-a modest sum by Western standards but a considerable feat for an African enterprise. Nzeru has just introduced a portable model that, together with a new radio-phonograph, promises to increase sales...
Critics and connoisseurs will undoubtedly spend years tracing the imagery through earlier works. For the average viewer, the power and the majesty of Duchamp's last work lies suspended somewhere among its multiple metaphors and in the sage, sure wisdom imparted by an aging iconoclast that with every autumn comes the spring...
Concealing the Problem. The complaints are understandable, but the wisdom of fighting Japanese protectionism with U.S. protectionism is open to argument. Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans has warned that continued rapid growth of Asian textile imports in the 1970s could wipe out the jobs of 600,000 U.S. textile workers, including many undereducated laborers in Southern towns. On the other hand, efficient U.S. textile companies have managed to prosper in spite of import competition. Burlington Industries, Cannon Mills and J. P. Stevens & Co. have steadily increased sales and profits...