Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late in August Mrs. Jackson called an emergency meeting of Roxbury parents, who organized the Roxbury and North Dorchester Parents Committee. They discussed different possibilities for action, including private busing if the school committee held firm. Two days before school began in September, the RNDPC petitioned the School Committee to reconsider its ban on busing...
...federal role, explains Frank Keppel, is "that of a junior partner in the firm in which the major stockholders are state, local and private educational agencies." In terms of money alone, he adds, the Government picks up only 13.6% of the nation's total school bill, hardly a controlling share...
...last decade, the value of goods that it sells to Iron Curtain countries has quintupled to $500 million annually. Now a new phase in the country's push eastward is beginning. West Germany and Poland are setting up a company owned jointly by the private West German firm of IBAG (for Internationale Baumaschinenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft) and the Polish state...
...seemed. Actually, in deepest secrecy, Rolls has been working on a new model for ten years. After spending $7,000,000 and employing 270 technicians, the firm displayed the result at ast week's Paris Auto Show: a new Rolls so thoroughly restyled that only the classic radiator grille, though lower and squarer, remains to recall the car's lineage. Rolls designers have chopped off 7 in. in length, 5 in. in height and 31 in. in width from the dimensions of the car's proud predecessor, the Silver Cloud. They have abandoned the old boxy profile...
Eliot had taught chemistry at the Medical School for one year, and what he saw made him want to change the whole system of training physicians. Under his firm direction, the Faculty came to adopt the present view that effective medical practice must be based on comprehension of basic medical science. Instruction was made more rigorous and was extended through-out the academic year; the University took responsibility for the school's finances and began paying professors' salaries; laboratory work was added to the curriculum; examinations were toughened; appointments to the Faculty emphasized academic experience; and students were selected...