Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reflecting an American tennis resurgence, Forest Hills has not had so many strong U.S. contenders in years. Wimbledon Champion Jimmy Connors is seeded No. 1, with Stan Smith ranked third, Arthur Ashe seventh and Marty Riessen eleventh. Behind them is a host of hungry players on the threshold of winning their first big tournament: Dick Stockton, Roscoe Tanner, Sandy Mayer and Brian Gottfried...
...imports in any member country drop below a still-to-be determined threshold, either as the result of a selective boycott or a general cutback in deliveries, the sharing will start. For example, if Canada and Norway could meet 100% of their oil needs and all other ECG members only 90%, then those two countries would share their oil until the proportion of requirements fulfilled was the same in all countries. The precise details of this and other procedures, such as a method for eliminating the need for time-consuming approval by each parliament should an emergency hit, remain...
...will receive every encouragement. Higher education for women is what the society of this country most needs. But if ever this plan tends to result, as some of its supporters hope it will, in the admission of women to Harvard, then it should be vigorously opposed. At the threshold of the recitation-room the line must be drawn. By all means let the girls have the advantages which we possess. We should be glad to have the scanty salaries of our instructors increased; we should be glad to see the bright faces of the young ladies in Cambridge...
With two nuclear power plants operating and two more under construction-potentially capable of providing enough plutonium to produce more than a score of modest bombs-India is on the threshold of atomic prowess. That prospect alone filled many Indians with pride this week and helped bolster Mrs. Gandhi's strike-embattled administration (TIME, May 20). Yet many others argued that nuclear bombs will have no effect on the economic ills of a country where incomes continue to plummet and prices rise faster than a mushroom cloud. As a Hindustan Times editorial observed last week: "A nuclear bang, albeit...
...invidious class conflict and the consequent psychic and social frustration. He incisively explains how this "raindance of continuing acceleration" increasingly determines the schedule of daily life, the geography of social space, the correlation of speed with socio-economic rank and the very quality of human existence: "Past a certain threshold of energy consumption for the fastest passenger, a worldwide class structure of speed capitalists is created. The exchanges value of time becomes dominant, and this is reflected in language: time is spent, saved, invested, wasted and employed. As societies put price tags on time, equity and vehicular speed correlate inversely...