Word: containment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deals only with the years 1915-1921, when Woodrow Wilson in his Presbyterian rectitude dreamed a new world of peace and good will but never awoke to the fact that he was dreaming. The hard facts of reality are supplied by Hoover, whose own files on World War I contain more than 1,500,000 items. His own role in that period was enormous, though widely obscured since then by his role in the era of Hoovervilles. He was not only the man who fed hungry Europe during and after the war; he was one of Wilson's first...
Despite all improvements, even today's sampling methods are far from 100% accurate. The Census Bureau itself admits that the figures contain a standard error of plus or minus 120,000 at the current level. Thus no one knows within six figures precisely what the total number of unemployed workers in the U.S. really is. Therefore, such figures as a 25,000 increase or decrease in unemployment are meaningless. And so are the tortured, hairline analyses made from them...
...program for bright pupils, those planning to attend college, include four years of English, science, math, history, and foreign language. In addition, the curriculum would contain courses in art, typing, and mechanical drawing...
...Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, ignored a ukase from leaders of both houses, voted to keep provisions against oversized billboards on some 25,500 miles of interstate highways to be built with matching federal funds. As a result, the $7.2 billion highway-construction bill, the first to contain an overall federal anti-billboard policy, was quickly approved by both houses, sent to the President...
According to Dr. Schatz, the dinosaurs were sluggish beasts whose metabolism (vital chemical processes) was so slow that they could keep their vast bodies alive without a great deal of food. In their age, he thinks, the earth's atmosphere did not contain so much oxygen as it does today. The dominant plants were mostly gymnosperms (conifers, ginkgoes, etc.) that did not excrete so much oxygen as modern plants...