“Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.” ImportantRealCountrySchoolSupportResearchPercentStressThreatDefenseEnormousBudgetsDepartmentEngineeringFunding Author:Charles M. Vest
“It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.” YearsFirstsImportantHardCreativeStageExampleBenefitsDestructionRateWaveEnormousRailDeregulationCreative Destruction Book:The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
“There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.” WayImportantSeemsBeliefDifferencesLossSunElementsIndiaEnglandFundamentalsProfoundIndividualityVicesEnormousVice VersaSeemingTropicalPlatitudesProfound Truth Book:A kind of compulsion, 1903-1936 Source: A kind of compulsion, 1903-1936