Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest incentives for educators has always been the opportunity to shape the world through its future leaders and citizens. But education also carries with it a responsibility to prepare a child to live in and accept, to some extent, the world as he finds it. The secondary boarding school is a potential utopia as well as a vital part of our formal educational system. These two aspects are at times opposed to one another...
...picked up some momentum while '58 has been able to take advantage of it, it is not a widely utilized program even now. Many departments have been very slow to push it, and the publicity on the idea was nonexistent. And further many students seemed very hesitant to accept the responsibility for studying where there would be no grade to reward them...
...bill extends unemployment benefits half again as many weeks as each state allows. It requires states to repay within four years such funds advanced by the Federal Government. But it gives the states an option to accept or decline this additional aid. What Kennedy and Douglas were after was a broader measure-mandatory for the states-that revamped basic principles of unemployment compensation by 1) requiring uniform national scales of payment and length of eligibility, and 2) extending benefits to 1,000,000 workers not now covered. Drawled Harry Byrd: "The Senator from Massachusetts is at the North Pole...
...maximum (or full) employment as laid down in the Employment Act of 1946 and at the same time achieve stable prices? The economists' answer: No. Said University of Michigan Economist Gardner Ackley: "We cannot aim at absolutely full employment, or even 98% employment, unless we are willing to accept considerable inflation...
...about full employment will have to be changed in the light of today's rigid wages and prices. The U.S. can no longer operate on the premise that maximum employment, i.e., 4% jobless or 2,700,000 workers, is compatible with stable prices. Unless it is willing to accept the idea of close to 5,000,000 unemployed as "reasonably full employment," then it must expect a continuing rise in prices...