Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...categorical grants for more or less specific pulrposes, but in most cases the effect is to provide general aid for any purpose the university desires. The effect is essentially to provide aid (through higher quality or lower tuition) to those enrolled in college, who tend to be relatively affluent. My personal feeling is that most of these funds would be better allocated to Federal scholarship and loan programs for the disadvantaged...
Nonetheless, substantial minorities -in some cases even majorities-hold views that reveal significant shifts in traditional attitudes toward sex. Again, it is the young, the bettereducated, the relatively affluent who reflect the most liberal views. One surprising fact is Harris' finding that 64% believe that abortions should not be a matter of law but should be left to the prospective parents and their doctor; even a 60% majority of Roman Catholics agree. Other results...
...poll regarding commitment [May 2] is terrifying, and should make many a friendly country run for cover. It is an invitation to Communist pressure throughout the world. Anyone who has experience in leadership knows that there is a price for leadership. Anyone who lives with the benefits of an affluent society should know that there is a price for affluence. There is really no free ride in life. We must be prepared to meet with force, if necessary, those who seek to take away our liberty and our advantages. We must continue to pray that they will...
...them one better. Now le tout Pnompenh is flocking to a spectacular riverside gambling complex, opened as a government monopoly in February. Inside a huge casino, thousands challenge the laws of chance in an assortment of card and dice games; in nine nearby air-conditioned chalets, the more affluent play roulette, chemin de fer and mah-jongg. Of the daily winnings of $75,000, the government skims off $40,000, while $25,000 goes to cover operating expenditures. The rest of the take is divided among 25 concessionaires, including several owners of now-closed illegal houses...
...Tedium is the Medium" citation when Tim Hunter (two-time winner for the worst students film) "graduates." The award is part of a great tradition and will prove increasingly relevant in future years as youth continues to foist the fruit of its Bolexes and Bell-and-Howells on an affluent and unsuspecting public. Hunter, an irritatingly egocentric critic and an excessive film-maker, can nonetheless sleep secure in the knowledge that even less able juveniles are pointing their cameras through forbidden windows. The Lampoon, if it ever decides to get it together at some future date, would do well...