Word: levels
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Boulding warned that there were three threats to the achievement of this "high-level equilibrium." The first of these is the increasing population. He lamented that there are no adequate institutions available to limit the population, and called misery the only effective method at present. Looking ahead 200 years, Boulding saw a "universal slum," should this problem not be overcome...
...third danger, Boulding concluded, is affluence. The question to be decided is whether we can develop a high-level equilibrium not dependent on mass consumption...
...York Herald Tribune is even greater. Many young newsmen have successfully made the jump between such small towns as Mexico and the Big City. But in the summer of 1959, Robert Mitchell White II, the Ledger's crewcut coeditor and copublisher, decided to make the trip-at top level. He accepted the positions of president and editor of the Herald Tribune...
Personal income in October rose to a new record, further building up a force that eventually may give the economy the energy it needs to leap ahead. Department-store sales for the last week climbed to their highest level in 1960, though still running 2% behind last year. Most businessmen are hopefully predicting the best Christmas sales in history. Even housing construction, which had been sliding, surprisingly turned around against seasonal trends and rose 15% in October...
...city level, Scranton has come up with one of the most imaginative programs. Hit by a cut in mining workers from 17.910 in 1940 to about 2,200 this year, Scranton set out to attract new employers by offering to build them a modern factory to meet their specifications. The city paid for all construction, charged the company only rent. The plan was first financed by the sale of municipal bonds, but the public has chipped in willingly with outright donations to keep the fund going. About 30 community-financed plants have been built at a cost of nearly...