Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America's latest great wave of immigrants, Hispanics are learning another hard lesson: latecomers start at the bottom. Nearly 27% of Hispanic families in the U.S. earn under $7,000 a year; only 16.6% of non-Hispanic families fare as badly. For the second quarter of 1978 the Hispanic unemployment rate was 8.9%, while the national average was 5.8%. As a group, Hispanics are the most undereducated of Americans?despite their own deep belief in the maxim, Saber es poder (Knowledge is power). Only 40% have completed high school, vs. 46% of U.S. blacks and 67% of the whites...
...They all asked me, 'How can you do that to your child,'" Susanna said. Susanna, 30, is a small, quick woman. Married and divorced, she was living in Australia when she made the decision to apply to Harvard. "I was tired of living on the bottom end. And it frightened me to know I was so dependent on the man I was with to keep me from starving or working as a waitress for 40 years. I became a bitch, feeling like a passive participant...
...then you'll certainly be at Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon to watch the Crimson football team match-up against Cornell in (if you'll excuse me) the battle of the cellar-dwellars. Of course, I've got to point out that Cornell and Harvard, who are currently occupying the bottom two rungs of the Ivy League column after only one game, both sport better overall records than the two co-leaders, Yale and Dartmouth--so there...
Speaking of women's tennis, the varsity racquetwomen will be out at Wellesley Saturday and Sunday competing in the Massachusetts State Championships. Now isn't that a good reason to use up all those bus tickets you've had in your bottom drawer since freshman year? Next Tuesday, the women will face Tufts for the third time in the last two weeks. (Last weekend the Cliffe squad tied for first place with Tufts in the Greater Boston Tennis Tournament...
Poor defense by the Yankees allowed the Dodgers three more runs in the bottom of the seventh. With Steve Garvey on first, Baker singled to right and Lou Piniella overthrew the cutoff man, allowing him to move to second...