Word: brackets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be: 1) men who failed to keep contact with their draft boards, or report changes of status, and are thereby considered delinquent; 2) men who volunteer; 3) still undrafted single men and childless married men between 18½ and 26 years old; 4) fathers in the same age bracket. Students and workers in essential industries will continue to receive deferments...
...formations averaged only 830,000 per year, but builders put up houses at an annual rate of 1,200,000 to 1,600,000. Now, because of the 1930s' low birth rates, fewer people are entering the so-called "first stage of home ownership"-the 28-30 age bracket...
...middle-priced market, G.M's high-performance Pontiac rose from 6.1% to 6.5%, of which a 1.9% share was supplied by its smaller version, the Tempest, which has a four-cylinder engine that brings its price down into the Corvair bracket. Long-ailing Buick and its new smaller Special model climbed from 2.5% to 4.1% of the market, thanks to less chrome and more performance. (One competitor calls Buick's mechanical performance this year "about the best in the industry.") Oldsmobile, with a loyal core of repeat buyers, inched up from 5.3% to 5-5%. though its smaller...
Urgent reassessment of the methods of evaluating need in the $15,000--$20,000 become bracket is required, according to Henry P. Briggs, Jr. '54, Director of freshman Scholarships. The constant increase in college costs, he noted, has placed even moderately wealthy families in the scholarship category...
BIGGEST TAX BITE in world is in West Germany, where taxes take 34% of gross national product, v. 29% in Great Britain, 26% in U.S. But a new British study shows top-bracket earners in Germany keep 47% of earnings, v. only...