Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back in 1946--the same year, incidentally, that Harvard Provost Paul Buck reported "a paucity of applicants of the kind we most desire"--Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan foresaw in the steadily rising number of applications a real cause for concern. This, in '46, when Radcliffe received perhaps only one-fourth as many applicants as it does now for a freshman class virtually the same size: "'The very wealth of the applications from which we could draw raises, indeed, a subtle threat to education in a free society. Though we employed every device known to assist us in selecting...
...news sources. "I was petrified." says Maxine. "I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. After all, Bill Roberts had been writing his column for twelve years. Who was I to take him on?" Roberts concurred, warned Maxine: "Nobody's ever been able to buck me. You'll be out of a job in six months...
...reason for such disdain is that too many vocational high schools are of the kind described by Director James Goode of Dallas Vocational School: "We handle delinquents, truants, troublemakers, boys with 'low normal' IQs, the ones who have dropped out of regular school programs. We produce the buck privates of industry." Industry does not want them any more than the schools...
...debating the admission of Red China. Characteristically, Jânio held back his hole card-whether he actually favors Peking's admission to the U.N. But even his endorsement of debate on the stormy issue makes Brazil the first hemisphere country outside Castro's Cuba to buck U.S. policy on China. Coming from Latin America's biggest nation. Jânio's move might well make it more difficult for the U.S. to hold the other republics in line...
...reputation for independence in the last decade, has no intention of letting the image be chipped away now. He has made plain he will cooperate with the Administration as long as long-term rates are moving downward anyway, but will not use the Fed's purchasing power to buck the market if the trend turns up. Its entry into the long-term market last week was cautious: it bought only two U.S. issues worth some $13 million...