Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of the American situation today is so full of contradictions as that which concerns the Negro. In terms of statistics and cold facts, the gains of the eight Democratic years have been spectacular. Negro median family income is up 53%; the unemployment rate is down 34%. The gap between black income and white income has narrowed substantially. Slightly more than a quarter (27%) of all Negroes are below the poverty line, compared with 55% in 1960. A far greater percentage of Negroes are finishing high school and going to college. Today, a Negro college graduate often has a better...
...roads, has done more than any other Italian firm to shape the country's new affluence at home and influence abroad. "Agnelli has a mythology not unlike President Kennedy's," writes British Journalist Anthony Sampson in The New Europeans. "Clearly his presence fills some kind of psychological gap...
...general privation of times past. Gianni Agnelli has a keen understanding of the social dissent. "The people of the older generation compare the life that they had with the life of the young today and see how much better off they are," says he. "From that grows the gap in understanding. But the young are saying that we could have it better, and this is certainly true...
...What a generation gap," says Miss Vosgerchian. "A generation and she didn't know...
...wide referendum should be taken. Moreover, the ensuing Faculty discussion suggested that Faculty views on ROTC are quite close to representative student opinions, certainly much closer than are those of SDS. This is simply not a case of students holding one view and the Faculty another with the generation gap between. It is a case of a minority of students and Faculty in basic opposition to the will of the probable majority of both...