Word: fourth
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...generation of racists. After examining 120 studies, Sociologist Nancy St. John of the University of Massachusetts found no definitive answers but decided that desegregation worsened race relations in quite a few cases. James Deslonde, an education professor at Stanford University, drew similar conclusions from a study of 1,200 fourth-through eighth-graders in the integrated schools of San Mateo County, south of San Francisco. He reported that peer pressure prevented 35% of the students from forming friendships across racial lines. Further, most black youngsters experienced "high levels of anxiety within the school setting," chiefly because they considered themselves...
...fourth time in six months, bloody fighting broke out in Lebanon last week between heavily armed irregular forces of Moslems and Maronite Christians. The three earlier rounds of street fighting had rocked the capital city of Beirut. The latest battles revolved around Tripoli in the north, Lebanon's second largest city and seaport. Before the Lebanese army was finally ordered into the area to stop the shooting, at least 100 people had been killed. That brought the death toll since the internecine fighting started in April to well over 1,000 people, in a country with a population...
...week of Terry Herndon, executive director of the National Education Association (see box page 51). Indeed by week's end hundreds of thousands of the nation's public school teachers were on the picket lines. The militant American Federation of Teachers estimated that as many as one-fourth of its 440,000 members could be on strike this month. The larger (1.7 million members) N.E.A. predicted that there could be from 150 to 200 strikes this fall−compared with 106 last year...
...Chicago, the strike was the fourth in six years. It involved more than the union's demands which, by Chicago standards, seemed almost modest: a cost-of-living raise, reduced class size and improved fringe benefits. The issues were complicated by disputes over the size of the school budget and the possible elimination of many teaching jobs...
...steel-storage department, a dispute over what to pay the driver of a side-loader truck has bogged down at the worker, foreman and department-supervisor levels. Doug Peach enters the negotiations at the fourth stage of a ritualized dispute procedure that calls for as many as seven steps leading up to John Owen's office. The difference in question is $5 a week. At a parley in the manager's office, Peach is told that another Rubery Owen plant pays the lower rate ($87.55 a week...