Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of the drop in qualified applicants, Funkenstein added, schools are forced to accept students whom they know cannot pass. Thus, the failure rate in medical schools has increased by one-third. Despite hopes that the opening of the Seton Hall and Albert Einstein medical schools would attract more students, no substantial improvement has yet occurred, he said...
Kishi's diehard opponents protest that the treaty revision commits Japan to support all U.S. moves in the Pacific and may therefore "attract the lightning" of a Communist H-bomb attack. There are U.S. reservations about the treaty as well; many Pentagon staff officers complain that it gives Japan what amounts to a veto over the movement of U.S. troops on the perimeter of the Asian mainland...
Another member of the group, Rev. Richard Mumma, pointed out that it is unjust to invite a famous professor to speak at a sparsely attended, "off-campus" meeting. House sponsorship of such lecturers would not only be fairer to the guest speaker, but would undoubtedly attract a large, more inter-denominational audience, he said...
...when they could be teaching 50. The need is all the more urgent as the European teacher supply dwindles. Example: the Sudan's fine University of Khartoum (enrollment: 1,260), where Britons are leaving the faculty and few Sudanese are replacing them. Fearing lower standards, Khartoum hopes to attract U.S. teachers through exchange programs. The hope may be ephemeral: perhaps 300 U.S. teachers are now in Africa, most of them in mission schools, only a handful in colleges. Many U.S. Negroes feel an intense involvement with emerging Africa, but there are only 30 U.S. Negro teachers on the entire...