Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Many an Agony," read posters on Bombay buses last week. Teeming India is officially committed, more than any other nation in the world, to birth control. At 1,800 "family planning centers" across this nation of 403 million, social workers fit diaphragms and counsel sari-swathed village women on simpler methods of contraception (sample prescription: if nothing better is handy, a suppository of cotton wadding soaked in cooking oil may suffice). Despite back-country ignorance and considered opposition from leaders of India's 5,500,000 Roman Catholics, contraceptives are gaining slow acceptance in India. But more must...
...tariff based on 25% of value. After the quota was filled, the tariff jumped to 45%. The result was that the U.S. manufacturers often did not know whether the woolens they had ordered would be imported under the lower or higher tariff. The new system is simpler. The Government will set no quotas, but the tariff will be higher. Importers will pay a flat rate of 37½ per lb., plus 38% of value on woolens valued at more than $2, and 76? per lb. up to 60% of value on cheaper woolens...
While observing the classes at Newton and conferring with a number of teachers, the College participants in the program will compile "cases": contemporary accounts of incidents such as the Salem witch trial, which illustrate a particular topic. They will rewrite these anecdotes in simpler language and provide an explanatory introduction. In addition, they may do some informal teaching...
...office automation, one of the prime problems has been the fact that not all machines talk the same language. The information from computers, in the form of magnetic tape, punched cards or punched paper tape, must be translated for use by less sophisticated machines. The language of the simpler machines, in turn, has to be translated into a form that computers can use. Also, a computer talking in punched cards cannot talk to a computer operating with I magnetic tape, unless the punched-card information is first put on tape, often a lengthy, expensive process. Last week Long Island...
...call ers, Oveta Gulp Hobby's Post blandly replied that the blackout had been taken as "another public service of the Post to insure public safety." But for all their intentions of doing good by stealth, the Post, the Chronicle and the Press would certainly have found life simpler had they lived up to a motto engraved in stone over the entrance of the Houston Post building: LET FACTS BE SUBMITTED...