Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President condemns. If 1960 is to be "the most prosperous year in our history," as the President claims, it must show advances in the public as well as the private sector, and in his richly metaphorical tirade against inflation Eisenhower might have instead devoted some attention to the equal danger of stagnation in public services...
...comparative scores, the Crimson seems no more than Brown's equal. The Bruins have a 7-5 record, compared to the varsity's 4-3-2 mark. Although the Crimson edged Providence, 5 to 4, in the semi-final round, it was soundly thrashed by Toronto in the finals...
...Resettled. In Akbet Jaber's modern, whitewashed UNRWA food dispensary, refugees with ration cards line up once a month for issues of flour, sugar and rice equal to 1,600 calories daily. So desirable are the ration cards that a brisk black-market trade has their current market value at $430 apiece. Because of this, no one ever dies in Akbet Jaber or in any Arab refugee camp, or at least deaths are not reported, and the deceased's card is not surrendered. As a result, an estimated 300,000 card carriers are not refugees...
...Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Rand mathematicians theorized that any underground explosion can be "decoupled" by placing it in a large enough cavity, and thus can defeat the detection network. If anybody cared enough to dig a cave 3,000 ft. down and 950 ft. in diameter-an excavating job equal to removing a mass of material equal in volume to the concrete in 42 Grand Coulee dams-it would muffle a 300-kiloton bomb so much that the explosion "might be made to appear seismically like one kiloton. This could not be distinguished by the Geneva seismic network from...