Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public schoolteacher is fed up with his longtime pose as a professional too polite to hit the streets in a fight for a reasonable wage. This year he is proving as tough in the pursuit of a buck as the school electrician and plumber, who have long outpaced him in pay. The U.S. taxpayer is sick of soaring school costs. The conflict between these viewpoints has created one of the most strife-ridden school openings in years. This week nearly 2,000,000 schoolchildren from Baltimore to East St. Louis, Ill., face the possibility of extended summer vacations because...
Hoping to stamp out uncoded checks of all sorts, which account for a troublesome 2% of its daily traffic, the Fed has relegated them to a sort of second-rate status. Unlike coded checks, which are processed in a day or two, an uncoded check submitted to one of the Fed's twelve regional banks might be shuffled for ten days or more...
...City has 8,000,000 rats. How does anybody know? Statisticians have a phrase for this, borrowed from the computer industry on which they now rely. The phrase is "garbage in, garbage out"-meaning that the result that comes out is only as good as the material that is fed...
...found that more boy babies died in infancy than girls, and concluded that therefore there must be more women than men in Britain. Today's scientists who no longer believe that anything is absolutely certain, also believe that many things are predictably probable. And it is the computer, fed with vast amounts of past data, that can project or at least outline the alternatives of several possible futures. "The computer has enshrined statistics," says M.I.T.'s Professor Harold...
...pickup truck, but it needed five tires and work on the engine. So for 100 straight weeks, Jackson hitchhiked the 28-mile round trip between his cottage and the city to re-enter the fruitless unemployment application. The rest of the time he tended the vegetable garden that fed him-until it died this spring from lack of fertilizer and insecticide, leaving him completely without resources...