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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white doctors examine them. Blacks were insulted; by using such words as awarding diplomas on a charitable basis, Davis had cheapened the blacks' hardwon gains. And students, who believed Davis's comments would lead admissions people to reevaluate their minority programs and adopt more stringent standards, felt compelled to correct the situation...
...easy chair. A $95 walnut table. An $84 clock. A $60 set of stack tables. Plywood valances worth $45 but requiring some $290 in labor to correct faulty installation...
...most New Englanders, the correct pronunciation of jai alai was, like a suntan, something acquired on vacation in Florida. Since early this summer, however, when the sport made its first foray north with the opening of two jai alai frontons, or arenas, in Connecticut, bettors have learned to say hi-lie quite properly-and, for the state, very profitably. Nearly $1 million a day pours through the betting windows at Hartford and Bridgeport from capacity crowds newly hooked on the world's fastest game and the fast buck...
...Well-formedness," when the mother demands a closer approximation to the correct pronunciation of a word with each repetition...
...responsibility ought to be to correct the gross national deficiencies in education. We ought to target our resources to try to beef up those areas where there are deficiencies. We've got to spend more money on the inner city. We are the only industrialized nation not to have elevated education to a level where a chief of state has an equivalent to a ministry of education: we ought to have a department of education...