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...concrete and just activity"; 2) a somewhat larger group characterized by "conformist adaptation," who give priority to their own personal interests; and 3) a much larger group whose political behavior is distinctly reserved. Within this latter group, which the author implicitly recognizes as the most significant, a further four-fold distinction of ascending size is made. First, a small group which is clearly politically and ideologically indifferent; second, those who concentrate their activity on their own technical training; third, the skeptics, the cynics, the nihilists; and finally, those who are politically reserved and resigned, but not to the extreme...
...twelve blundering years, I've paid between 7½% and 8½% sales charge on the seven funds I've bought. I'm so angry I'd sell them all now, except that I'd be charged an excessive capital gains tax for the four-fold appreciation...
...Challenge," a PBH tutoring program for bright seventh and eighth graders from lower socio-economic areas of Cambridge, will expand nearly four-fold this semester, Elisha M. Gray '66, director of the project, announced yesterday...
Wilcox said that the trend which saw applications rise almost four-fold in the five-year period 1955-60 is "clearly leveling...
...local pacifist group has already begin to campaign against a billion-dollar proposal to increase the active reserves four-fold and which will be debated in the House of Representatives today. The drive against the bill will be supported at the University by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, John B. Butcher '57, a member of the FOR's executive board, said yesterday...