Word: diffusionism
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Taking as an analogy the adaptation of Catholicism into a "uniquely Ghanian" institution, Nketsia suggested that similar "cultural diffusion" was the only possible way of adapting European institutions to the African situation.
Gloomy Indexes. There was little cheer last week at the latest figures of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Diffusion Index. This is a compilation of eight indicators that include new orders for durable goods, average work week, building awards, Dow-Jones industrials, and new incorporations. The index...
The Technological Trap. For FAO's Binay Sen, the prime answer to the world's hunger lies not in birth rate or food giveaways but in the diffusion of advanced agricultural techniques-chemical fertilizer, better seeds, soil improvement. To persuade the conservative, generally illiterate peasants of Asia or...
Without clear-cut issues or personalities, diffusion results. This year, 31 City Council candidates and 21 School Committee candidates will fight on election day for the all-important first choice ballots.
Behind the National Geographic's familiar, fussy, yellow-bordered cover-essentially unchanged since 1910-lies a publishing success formula as improbable as the society that conceived it. The charter members met in Washington one January night in 1888 determined to promote "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge." At...