Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book grows from a television series Galbraith filmed for the BBC along the lines of J. Bronowski's Ascent of Man. In the series, Galbraith jaunts around the world to various spots of particular import in his study, strolling along the countryside of Marx's youth and surveying the barren wastes of Death Valley (which he offers as an example of the New York-Philadelphia corridor after World War III). As a substitute--a good one--for the varied film clips that bring his series to life, The Age of Uncertainty is studded with more than a hundred photographs...
...youth was spent in doing without, though I now do enjoy every hard-earned luxury. But I gladly offer to forsake all the unnecessary, comfortable luxuries in order to preserve this great land and its resources for our greatest resource-hope for the future...
...trundled toward the President's desk, Congress was also working on the spending parts of Carter's economic stimulus package. Last week a House-Senate conference committee approved a bill that, among other things, would appropriate $9.3 billion for job-creating programs, including public service employment and youth-training plans. That still leaves the question of whether what is left of the stimulus program is enough to cut the nation's jobless rate below 7%. Administration policymakers insist that it will. But if the economy does keep recovering it will be as a result...
...current U.S. price will be cut by 20% or 30%. For convenience, the water will be sold in bottles of six-packs, just like beer. The company intends to launch an introductory $4 million advertising blitz featuring Orson Welles, and will aim a special pitch at the youth market...
...French and German colonials sit down again over drinks, having learned nothing from the experience but that "the niggers who were German are now English." The geographer finds that his German counterpart is a fellow university man, and they share a well-bred chuckle over their common socialist youth. Race and class reassert themselves. There is no sense of relief: ahead, as we know from the vantage point of 1977, still lies the tur bulent, bloody ordeal of 20th century Africa...