Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...youth service program, according a Berg, must concentrate on the schools rather than on construction or manual labor. Africa needs "teachers, not doers," he emphasized, and the secondary schools, which provide the "crucial layer of people with intermediate skills," are the great bottleneck in the continent's development...
...made the Ph.D. into the only valid post-graduate degree. But McGrath's proposal that study for the degree should be shortened to two years compromises the research value of the degree. An entirely new degree, or a resurrection of the M.A., is the only solution to the Ph.D. bottleneck...
...side of the brain, and in a few cases this is true on both sides. A hemorrhage or, more common, a clot in the internal carotid of such people is apt to do far more damage than in people of normal arterial development, because there is a greater bottleneck for blood supply to essential areas...
...biggest bottleneck in the U.S. missile program is not the development or testing of the giant birds-which have been firing successfully-but construction of the bases that would be needed to send them winging against an enemy. The U.S. now has six operational Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles-and by schedule should now have 18. Later this year twelve Atlases will be operational, whereas there should be more than 30. Last week 56 top executives of companies that make the Atlas and its launching sites returned home from Washington after a rousing pep talk from Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates...
...plant near Sacramento where Aerojet-General Corp. was working on solid-fuel rocket engines, at the Groton, Conn, sub pens of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. From weekly progress reports he could tell where to pour on extra effort to break a prospective bottleneck. Contractors had a hard time keeping up with Raborn's knowledge of what was going on in their own plants...