Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Boston union wages are in the process of being raised in a contract to be settled this year. John Giuggio, business manager of the Boston Globe said the new union scale "will jump appreciably" over the rates listed above...
Concerned scientists protested to the Johnson administration that the "large-scale use of anticrop and 'non-lethal antipersonal chemical weapons in Vietnam" constituted "a dangerous precedent" in chemical and biological warfare. They asked the President to stop it. U.S. officials preferred to call the herbicide spraying a "food-denial program." Starve out the enemy-regardless of the effect on crops (or innocent people) in a part of the world already in the midst, as Whiteside notes of "malrumrition, the disease, the trauma, the poverty, and the general shambles...
...boys? They are scorned. This somewhat unsettling conclusion has been drawn from an experiment staged at two suburban Boston grade schools by Psychologist Lane K. Conn of Boston's Northeastern University. With two research assistants. who suggested the experiment, Conn rated 192 fifth-and sixth-graders on a scale that measured their need for approval. Then his subjects were asked, among other things, to pick the three classmates they would choose for class president, which three they played with most, which three they liked best, and which three least...
...have burned out. No longer supported by its own radiant energy, it collapses violently, its density and gravitation becoming so great that it crushes itself out of existence. For all practical purposes, according to theory, the star becomes a "black hole" in space. But to produce waves on the scale observed by Weber, some 200 such stars would have to collapse every year in the Milky Way: scientists believe that the actual rate is only about one per year. Weber is equally puzzled. But the waves are there, he insists, "and the theorists will resolve the problem eventually...
...civilized countries have claimed the privilege of being individuals. Formerly they were slave, peasant, laborer, even artisan, but not person. It is clear that this revolution, a triumph for justice in many ways . . . has also introduced new kinds of grief and misery, and so far on the broadest scale, it has not been altogether a success . . . For a historian of great interest, but for one aware of the suffering it is appalling. Hearts that get no real wage, souls that find no nourishment. Falsehoods, unlimited. Desire, unlimited. Possibility, unlimited. Impossible demands upon complex realities, unlimited . . . The idea of the uniqueness...