Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education is only one phase of the self-perpetuating cycle that entraps the Negro-a low-paying job, or none at all, leading to housing in a slum, leading to a segregated, second-rate school, leading back to an inferior job. The basic way to break the vicious circle, thinks Moynihan, is with money. "Beef up the family income," he says, "and everything else will follow in its train." Moynihan proposes two measures. The Federal Government, he says, should guarantee jobs by becoming the "employer of last resort" any time the national unemployment rate is above 3%. Merely putting...
...work, many cities dock their welfare payments by the amount of their earnings, thus destroying the incentive to work. New York plans to allow welfare recipients to keep the first $85 of earnings, 30% of the remainder. Sviridoff suggests a thorough reorganization of the educational set-up that would break huge city school systems (New York, for example, currently enrolls 1,100,000 students) into "small, more manageable units" of 10,000 to 20,000 children each...
Three Ringleaders. At an inquiry after the fire, convicts testified that two white prisoners and a Negro had planned the riot, possibly to mask a prison break, possibly just to vent some frustrations. "They really wanted to tear it up," testified one prisoner, but for what reason he could not-or would not-say. Nor could the three ringleaders. All had perished in the blaze...
...Star chose to sell. Under the 1940 agreement, the now prosperous Citizen had first option: it bought the Star with the explanation that it would resell the paper as soon as a suitable purchaser could be found. At that point, the Justice Department filed suit not only to break up the merger but to nullify the original joint operating agreement as well...
...four U.S. entrepreneurs who took over 122-year-old Mark Cross in 1962, attributes its success to uncompromising quality. "We have never sacrificed lasting fashion for fad," he says. His philosophy is expressed in a recent Mark Cross ad: "It's a throwaway society, man. Break it. Chuck it. Replace it. Do you believe that? Mark Cross...