Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...this year virtually the only sound to be heard in the show grounds at London's cavernous Earl's Court was the occasional roar of a tractor. For the first time in memory not a single animal was competing for the Smithfield's blue ribbons. The reason: one of the most virulent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in modern British history...
...however, field trials of the Pirbright vaccine have been limited to South Africa, Kenya and Tanganyika, and until a surefire vaccine is discovered, the British government sees no alternative to mass slaughter of infected herds. Chief reason is that to do otherwise would end Britain's profitable exports of breeding stock to Canada and the U.S., both of which refuse to admit cattle from areas where foot-and-mouth disease is endemic and controlled only by immunization. This was a precaution Britain could well understand, since the most likely cause of Britain's own current troubles was frozen...
...November 1959 when Hawaii's Kilauea Iki volcano suddenly erupted and formed a lava pool 300 ft. deep in its own crater, no one in the neighborhood saw any particular reason to cheer. But at the University of California's Livermore Radiation Laboratory, the news brought joy to the hearts of a pair of bright young scientists. To Geologist Donald Rawson, 26, and Physicist Gary Higgins, 33, the new lava pool sounded like an ideal testing site for a key phase of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare: a plan for harnessing a steam-powered turbogenerator...
...Rawson and Higgins have another reason for wanting to return to Kilauea Iki. In drilling their hole they discovered that nitrogen and carbon dioxide were seeping from it. There is a chance that these gases came from the atmosphere, the ocean or surface rocks, but if they can be proved to have come from the virgin lava itself, they may contribute valuable evidence about the formation of the earth. One theory holds that the earth was formed quickly out of dust particles and that it kept hot enough while growing to drive all gases out of its interior. A rival...
...entry in the economic phrasemaking derby came from Charles L. Schultze of Indiana University, who described current conditions as "high-level creeping stagnation." The major reason for the economy's failure to rise strongly from the 1958 recession, said Schultze, was too much tightening of credit by the Federal Reserve Board, and the Government's attempt to "budget for an overly large surplus." "If these restraints were relaxed," added Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution, "I would have little doubt that the economy would grow faster and that this growth would be interrupted less frequently by periodic recession...