Word: central
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...statisticians as American poverty. From Michael Harrington's 1962 study. The Other America, to last month's report by the Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty, Hunger, U.S.A., which found that 10 million Americans are chronically malnourished, the condition of the U.S. poor has been catalogued in a sierra of statistics. Central to any understanding of the subject is the "poverty line," a sliding scale devised five years ago by Social Security Economist Mollie Orshansky. Her flexible income line rises for large urban families and recedes for those in rural areas, dipping as low as $1,180 a year for a single...
...members of the Central Committee, only 14 appeared at the recent May Day celebrations in Tienan-men Square-usually a reliable index...
...Radio Prague commentator addressed Moscow, "don't repeat the tragic experience of Yugoslavia and Hungary." Práce, the trade-union newspaper, editorialized that "any sort of military intervention represents such an adventurist policy that it is unbelievable that any member or responsible body such as the Soviet Central Committee could take it into consideration...
...White House, flew on to Florida, Texas and California, to Wisconsin's Scandinavian dairylands, to Chicago, and finally to Manhattan. There, he lunched with Nelson and Happy Rockefeller and the Governor's Norwegian-born daughter-in-law, Anne-Marie, in the Governor's apartment overlooking Central Park. He took in the big town's other sights and, feeling the salt rising in his veins, even headed into New York harbor to inspect the Coast Guard's ocean rescue facilities on Governors Island before catching a jet back to Oslo...
Because of the historical limits on the power of the central administration, student representation on the Board of Overseers would be no substitute for increased student power at the faculty level. Neither the Board of Overseers nor the Corporation concerns itself with whether a Social Relations concentrator is required to take junior generals. That power has been delegated to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which in turn has delegated much of it to the departments. But precious little of it has been delegated to students. Even while students are seeking such control, however, they are entitled to a voice...