Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increases the prices of Japanese goods overseas, inevitably hurting an economy based so heavily on trade. In addition, Japan's shipbuilding yards and textile mills are meeting tough competition from spanking new facilities in lowpaying, less developed nations such as Brazil and South Korea. Small-and medium-size general merchandise producers of toys, hardware and household goods are losing markets to rivals in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Profits are meager for many companies, and 18,000 firms went bankrupt last year...
DIED. Algur Hurtle Meadows, 79, oil mogul who gave Southern Methodist University about $30 million in money and masterpieces to establish in Dallas a "prairie Prado"; following an automobile accident; in Dallas. In 40 years Meadows built up the small General American Oil Co. into a $100 million diversified empire. Some of his forays into art acquisition were less successful, as when he paid roughly $500,000 for 44 "bargain" canvases that turned out to be fakes...
...tutor in the History Department said last week that several Department members were "furious" after the Department handed down a decision giving five seniors failing grades on their general examinations...
...five students, who cannot graduate until they pass another set of generals to be given next year, comprise the largest group of students flunking History general examinations in the past five years...
...tutor and Thernstrom both said the small number of failing grades given in recent years led some seniors to believe they did not have to study seriously for the general examinations. (The topics covered by the questions in the general examinations are given out several months before the test...