Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...degree simply no longer means what it used to. Should its possessors expect to get what their predecessors...
...following table, supplied by the Treasury Department, shows the income tax now paid by the average family of four in various income brackets, the savings they can expect after President Carter's proposals for income tax cuts go into effect, the increase in Social Security taxes they will pay next year and the net change in both taxes. The average family earning less than $10,000 will actually collect money from the Government; some are net taxpayers, but those earning less than $8,000 are eligible for an "earned-income credit" that entitles them to "refunds" greater than their...
...runs for the presidency in 1980, as many expect, California Governor Jerry Brown will be ready with his own energy program. Among other things, the $500 million Brown plan for California, unveiled after New Year's, proposes using windmills, wood chips, walnut shells, rice hulls, solar panels, coal gasification and hot water as alternatives to fossil fuels. Says Brown: "Americans seem to be getting less inventive. I'm going to try to stimulate things the best I can through energy innovation...
...class backgrounds--would make "attractive" candidates--in Young's terms--were they to apply to Harvard. Otherwise, the admissions office presumably would not send student recruiters to high schools in low income areas with predominantly minority student bodies. Yet many of these students will not apply, mainly because they expect their low or mediocre grades and test scores to keep them...
...even be realistic to expect students to run a broad recruiting program. Jean Camper Cahn, dean of Antioch School of Law, says that from her experience with Antioch's minority recruitment program, she believes minority recruitment is a job requiring professional expertise. With minority students making up 30 per cent of the law school's student body, Antioch operates an unusually successful minority recruitment program. "I don't believe that undergraduate students are in the best position to recruit for a college or university. They often lack both the maturity and general knowledge about the institution," she says...