Word: classe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle-Class Grumbling. Opposition to Trujillo comes mostly from the middle and upper classes-about a quarter of the population of 2,800,000. "These people travel and have broader knowledge," explains a foreign resident in Ciudad Trujillo. "They hate to take orders. They live well but insecurely...
Though big U.S. corporations sent their recruiting teams as usual to Harvard Business School this year, Enterpriser Wyle waved off the big firms' offers. Along with 130 other members of the graduating class, who were impatient for "earlier responsibilities'' and "more interested in starting opportunities than starting salaries," he decided early in the year to organize a class-run hunt for jobs in business-small business. Eager second-year students put up $15 apiece to help pay the expenses of six classmates, whom they dispatched during the Christmas holiday on prospecting tours of California, the Middle West...
...fastest-rising educator in the U.S. public-school system is a 39-year-old suburban schoolmaster who has made his career by energetically corseting the careless middle-class spread of the community-controlled school. "Too often," says Dr. George Brain, "we in America seem to mean that an equal education should be an identical education...
...cooperation." Most newsmen agreed.
...cannot agree. Columbia University's Dr. Samuel Graff expresses the current consensus: all cancerous cells are the result of mutation, and mutations can be set off by many known factors-inherited defective genes, radiation by X or gamma rays, ultraviolet light, many chemicals, including some of the huge class of hydrocarbons, physical irritation of tissues, and certainly in some animal cancers by the invasion of a virus. There may be other, still unknown factors causing mutation...