Word: charts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coming attractions for this week include Webster Lewis, an organist; a panel of women from Columbia Point who will discuss the educational system; and an astrologer scheduled for Friday 13th who will "read the chart of the U.S. as if it were a person...
...present the U.S. holds a lead in heavy bombers and SLBMs (sea-launched ballistic missiles). The Soviet Union is ahead in the number of intercontinental, medium-and intermediate-range ballistic missiles and medium bombers (see chart). Two problems that could complicate the final equation, however, have not yet come up for discussion: > Both sides are moving ahead with the development of MIRV (multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles), a system that arms a single rocket with several warheads. Its deployment, undetectable by most monitoring procedures, could make a final agreement impossible. >The Nixon plan provides for parity in delivery systems...
...lesson: the need for sensible national antipollution standards to keep states from lowering their own standards when competing for industry. Another: many of Vermont's new laws, while too vague in some respects, are also too weak. Air-pollution offenses are measured visually against a fume-color chart that hardly applies to nighttime emissions. The laws controlling water pollution fail to set precise standards of water quality and thus cannot be enforced...
...incensed by the charge that they have caused inflation; in fact, they are its chief victims. The average weekly wage of factory hands and clerks rose from $95 five years ago to $121 in September. But in real purchasing power, adjusted for inflation, it has actually declined (see chart page 72). Over the last decade, according to the Labor Department, the financial needs of a family with growing children have risen by 61%. In the same years, the average earnings of skilled workers have increased only 41%, compared with 64% for blacks as a group and 61% for executives...
Adapted from A Hall of Mirrors, a slice of underworld life by Novelist Robert Stone, WUSA is a wayward attempt to chart the depredations of right-wing forces in America. The film, produced by Newman, patently reflects the political views held by him and his wife Joanne. Their social awareness is admirable, but it has led their moviemaking astray. As two of the screen's most talented artists, they could have brought strength to Stone's closely stitched characters. Instead, personality and plot are overridden by politics...