Word: frets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tokyo, which has 7 sq. ft. Real estate values have risen 670% in a decade in some parts of town, and now rival Manhattan's?despite fears that anything built on the land may one day come tumbling down. Mild tremors hit the city almost every day, and experts fret that 3,000,000 would die in another earthquake like the one that flattened the city in 1923. Yet since the 100-ft. limitation on buildings was done away with in 1962, because of new, supposedly quake-resistant construction techniques, the Japanese have been challenging fate; now abuilding...
...While purists fret about academic standards, Mrs. Wexler firmly favors an open admissions policy at urban public colleges: "You can't discriminate on 'prior preparation' grounds any more than on economic grounds." She feels that "our country is one human family" that ought to teach the poor and culturally deprived as eagerly as it does the deaf or blind. By "culturally deprived," she means not only Negroes and Puerto Ricans but also whites who are deprived of the opportunity to learn about non-Western culture...