Word: leveled
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...University scientist has found that a one-celled green plant, an alga, duplicates its transmitters of genetic information (DNA) in the same way as bacteria. This discovery of Noboru Sueoka, research fellow in Biology, reinforces the theory that at the fundamental level of biochemistry, most living processes are the same...
...Times (circulation, 600,000) and the ever-popular Daily News (circulation, 2,000,000). The Tribune is uncomfortable in the middle, and passes through alternating cycles of social-climbing and slumming. Tangle Towns was inaugurated during one of the periods when the Trib was in queasy descent to the level of the News...
...such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. Equally grave, these men "had categorically denied any such acts" to Cordiner until months after a federal grand jury in Philadelphia began investigating; only then did they confess to him. Some of the executives, announced G.E., "have had their positions substantially downgraded, their level of compensation materially reduced, have been reassigned to positions with no responsibility for prices"-and forced to resign as officers. Others will be penalized soon. No names were mentioned, but U.S. Justice Department officials said that two G.E. vice presidents were involved...
American Presidential campaigns rarely rise above the level of polite name-calling and Madison Avenue sloganeering. When a candidate attempts to wage his campaign on principles and issues, most often he finds himself rejected by the electorate--as Adlai Stevenson has learned on two occasions. Instead of providing a quadrennial forum of intelligent discusison of the nation's problems, the Presidential election usually degenerates into a puerile contest between rival slogans and personalities, with the real issues thrust aside as fit topics only for columnists and professors. The people seem to prefer well-meaning mediocrity to well-reasoned policy...
...executed an issue of importance. Kennedy's pledge of a vigorous Presidency is a welcome and promising start for his campaign. If he can continue to discuss the issues on a realistic and intelligent basis, he may be able to keep the 1960 race from the usual level of slogans and petty side issues. Cassandra may not bear glad tidings, but she is a good deal more truthful than Pollyanna...