Word: threshold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...threshold of its third century, America is afflicted by a "drift from dynamism," which threatens to allow the nation's global leadership to slip into "less sophisticated hands, at a perilous moment." So concludes the Economist's deputy editor, Norman Macrae. A longtime expert on world economics and political affairs, Macrae, 52, first gained attention in the U.S. in 1969 by writing a penetrating survey on the American dilemmas of race and poverty. Now he has produced a provocative if discursive report suggesting that the U.S. may be at the close of its industrial empire. He argues persuasively...
Harvard's President Derek Bok urges the "education of a new profession" for public service, with "more sophisticated skills in policy analysis and administration." Bok suggests that we are approaching "the threshold of a new era of scarcity and restraint in which the deficiencies of Government cannot be papered over by constantly rising levels of prosperity...
...makers of Wizard, the Bally Company, have carried pinball over the threshold of a new age. In pinball's infancy, the game's mechanisms were exceedingly simple, even one dimensional. For most machines the surface was the only reality. A given bumper, a given roll-over had a certain, fixed value, and one's score was no more or less than the sum of those values. It was not long, however, before a second dimension was introduced, utterly transforming a phenomenon that had been purely linear: certain targets or combinations of targets were designed to change the schedule of reward...
...else in the University has been touched by the recession and the way President Bok's administration has dealt with it. "It's hard for us in administrative positions to deal with," he says. "Before, we used to know everybody. We knew how to deal with them. Our pain threshold is very low on economic matters. We hurt quickly. After thirteen years of benign neglect there's some positive, detailed interference in ways there wasn't before...
...this modern capitalism seemed to be on the verge of producing the permanently affluent society. Keynesian policies had kept recessions brief, mild and infrequent; the end of World War II opened the longest period of sustained growth ever. American Economist George Stigler announced that "economics is finally at the threshold of its Golden Age?nay, we already have one foot through the door...