Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock work by able planners, the proposed defense budget leaves the U.S. with cause for rising worry over how much security it gets for its tax dollar. Reason: the 1961 budget, like many of its predecessors, represents slow compromise with the fast, uncompromising changes of modern-weapons technology. Result: it spreads too thin over too many half-finished, half-good or plainly outdated programs, perpetuates costly ideas out of past wars, fails to concentrate spending upon the strict necessities of today and the future...
...hardware affects the role it wins in strategy and gives it the backing of a powerful segment of industry, no branch willingly gives up a promising weapon in favor of a similar one developed by a competitor. The Army's attempt to hold a place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while Thors go to Great Britain...
...Eaters. On average, the number of calories consumed by Asians, Africans and Latin Americans has increased since World War II. What has changed is the unwillingness of poorer peoples to accept undernourishment. Said an Indonesian delegate to the FAO conference: "More Indonesians are eating rice than ever before. The result is that more Indonesians want it. People who have never had rice before have decided that they like...
...jargon phrase for this is "the revolution of expectations," and it has resulted everywhere in solutions that do not solve. Poorer nations simply eat more, and either cut down on their agricultural exports or import food. Asia, excluding Red China, now imports about 10 million tons of grain a year. But the result is less foreign exchange in the coffers of most Asian nations, and less capital for needed economic development...
...result, a good deal of rewarding detail blurs into a June-moon landscape, an all-church-bells-and-wedding-bells kind of world. In spite of a triangular love story, there is not one tantrum; in spite of seven Trapp children, not one brat. Surely even an unexceptionable family show can be more fun: The Sound of Music ends by making its warmheartedness as cloying as a lollipop, as trying as a lisp...