Word: brighter
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There are also some brighter signs in education. Though reading scores in ghetto elementary schools remain 15 to 19 points below the national norm, test scores in New York City show that the decline has been at least temporarily arrested in the past year. Since 1967 the percentage of black ghetto males who drop out of high school has fallen from 24% to 18%. To its credit, the Nixon Administration since 1969 has more than doubled federal aid to black colleges, to $242 million this year...
...while, the Arab nations created severe new international balance of payments problems, disrupted business, backed up long lines at gasoline pumps and caused countless other hardships. But at an energy conference held by Time Inc. in Williamsburg, Va., speakers from Government, industry and environmental groups also saw a brighter side to the five-month oil embargo. They believe that it awakened Americans to long-festering energy troubles and started them thinking about solutions...
...Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, the outlook is hardly brighter. The 300-megawatt Rihand dam has been closed by water shortages; last month, power was cut by 40% throughout the state. Electric steel furnaces until last week were allowed no power at all and had to shut down completely. In the city of Ghaziabad, other industries are allowed power to operate only between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. That move saves power for domestic and office use during the day, but it automatically idles 15% of the factory work force of 70,000, since women are forbidden...
There were few brighter up-and-coming stars in the G.O.P. galaxy than Connecticut Governor Thomas Meskill, 46, who accomplished in his first term of office just what he said he would. He has turned a $244 million budget deficit that he inherited from the Democrats into a substantial surplus, mainly by reducing spending, introducing tuition at state colleges, and increasing the sales tax. He also kept his campaign promise to set up one of the most active environmental agencies in the nation...
...prospects for at least limited action by the current Congress are brighter. The Nixon Administration last week submitted a plan that could ultimately offer all Americans some form of coverage. Moreover, there is every indication that the Administration will push hard for its program, thus augmenting the pressures already present in Congress to create some sort of health-insurance system this year. "There has long been a need to assure that no American is denied high-quality health care because he can't afford it," President Nixon told a meeting of the American Hospital Association. "As costs...