Word: bracketing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called the guidelines, formulated by the College Scholarship Service in Princeton, N.J., "unrealistic" in their assessment of what parents in the $17,000 to $35,000 income bracket can afford to pay to colleges...
...costly 9½-year war. Yet the war's devastation was still making itself felt among many of the nation's 2.5 million Viet Nam war veterans. No fewer than 23,000 are totally disabled. A full 10% of all veterans in the 20 to 24 age bracket are jobless. The most bitter complaint for many centers on college and vocational education. They quite properly ask how a Vietvet is supposed to pay for tuition, books, rent and personal expenses on the present allowance of $220 per month...
...recommendations. Last week the board proposed wage hikes of up to 30%-almost what the miners had demanded and within $2.3 million of the final settlement. The increases will raise miners' wages in the lowest category from $58.17 a week to $73.60 and in the highest bracket from...
...actually discriminate against fat people, or do fat people lack the spark and drive to achieve the $25,000-to-$40,000 earnings bracket, just as they lack the self-discipline to keep their body in the proper weight bracket...
Poor people have had difficulty going to medical school in this country. In 1960-63, one-third of medical students came from the top 3 per cent economic bracket, whereas only 12 per cent came from the lowest half of the population. It goes without saying that that half contains more whites than people of color, though because of racial discrimination, the latter constitute a disproportionate fraction of the poor and near-poor...