Word: faster
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...changing much more rapidly than can be seen by the outsider who reads the newspapers. When '54 came [the Supreme Court decision on school desegregation], I knew that change would not come overnight. I foresaw the struggle you have had, but if anything, the development has gone faster than I anticipated, and it will continue. You forget to see how much you actually have changed...
...Board Governor Andrew Brimmer said last week that by 1975 consumers will be paying $3.7 billion a year extra for clothing and shoes alone. Reasons: Americans will not be able to get low-priced imports as easily as they now do, and prices of U.S.-made goods will rise faster because of less competition from abroad. The costs. Brimmer declares, will be borne disproportionately by the poor, who must spend a larger slice of their income on shoes and clothing than the well-to-do. These costs would be multiplied if imports of many other foreign products were limited under...
Playing amateur archaeologist among the Aztec ruins, Brill tries to poke home the author's moral: Look at what becomes of people who worship gold, the "sun's excrement," instead of the sun. Alas, Bourjaily's real message is this: Nobody is likely to become extinct faster than American novelists trying to rework Lost Generation formulas in the age of Aquarius...
...Clemente on the day after last week's elections, President Nixon huddled with advisers to discuss the budget that he will send to Congress in January. Over the next few weeks, he will have to decide how much he dares to spend to get the economy moving faster. There is a good chance that he will let the budget drift into a big deficit for 1972, even at the fearful risk of running a higher rate of inflation than he wants...
...blue collar worker's neighborhood and home, technology has changed his life on the job?for the worse. The celebrated productivity gains of the 1950s were largely accomplished by the expansion of automation and by breaking down jobs into smaller and smaller functions, enabling the assembly lines to move faster. A great many workers have lost any sense of control over what they are doing and often have to move so fast and steadily on assembly lines or at piecework that there is hardly time even to go to the toilet. The image of Charlie Chaplin, in Modern Times, leaving...