Word: climbing
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Outside Help. The climb, to be sure, was not all due to internal causes. Much of it has come since President John son's State of the Union message; along with such bitter pills as higher taxes, the President also promised such palliatives as easier money and spoke against the wartime wage and price controls that Wall Street fears. In addition, last week came predictions from Washington that last year's sharp rise in consumer prices was likely to ease off this year, which also pleases the Street. By March, if the market does indeed roll into...
Poison & Salve. Actually, most traders expect mercury's price to climb, at least in the long run. Though the U.S. is the world's No. 1 mercury consumer, the nation produces less than a third of the metal it needs. It depends heavily on imports from Spain, whose 2,400-year-old Almaden mine, the world's richest, was first worked by invading Phoenicians. Both U.S. and world demand are growing faster than production, partly because of mercury's increasing use as a catalyst in the making of chlorine and caustic soda for the expanding chemical...
...segregation of girls from boys. In reality it is discrimination against the girl students. Large numbers of university girls study domestic science. All day long what they study is how to marry wealthy husbands of their choice, how to manage their home affairs, and how to help their husbands climb up the ladder. These represent the outlook on life of many an American girl student...
...point in the first half, Dartmouth had opened up a seven-point lead. With ten minutes left, Coach Floyd Wilson re-inserted slumping captain Gene Dressler into the lineup, and Dressler sparked the Crimson's climb back to respectability. Dressler ended the evening with nine points, Barth Royer had 18 and Bob Kanuth 15 for the losers...
...result of the student deferment and mental-physical standards, the selective service now forces a particular group of young people--the lower-middle class--to bear a disproportionate share of the burden. The deferment weeds out those who do not have the resources--mental, material, and motivational--to climb the dizzying ladder to "higher" education. The physical and intelligence criteria select out much of the lower class. As the Task Force on Manpower Conservation showed in its report One-Third of a Nation, at least a fifth of those rejected come from families that are on public assistance, and almost...