Word: growth
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According to Klan watchers, the growth in membership is mostly a reaction to busing for school desegregation and to affirmative action, which Klansmen figure gives blacks an advantage over them in competing for jobs. David Chalmers, a historian at the University of Florida and author of Hooded Americanism, observes that most Klansmen have a resentful sense of being unfairly excluded from the middle class. Says he: "By joining the Klan and defending Americanism, they confer on themselves the status that society has denied them...
...today are happy to divorce themselves from responsibility for their students' social lives." Ms. Brown does not seem to understand that treating college students like the adults they have legally become is quite different from abandoning responsibility for them. Most student affairs professionals are deeply concerned with supporting both growth and adult behavior among young people. Your reporter is not justified in suggesting that those colleges with less restrictive social policies are directed by administrators who do not care about their students. Mary A. Williams Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Student Affairs at Lesley College
Even if they survive, children under two will be permanently scarred by prolonged starvation. Most brain growth occurs in the uterus and before the age of two; adequate nutrition after that cannot remedy an earlier deficiency. For older survivors, recovery can be complete. Doctors warn, however, that a patient must be reintroduced carefully and gradually to food. The heart and digestive system are so weak that a sudden gorging can induce shock and death. Well-meaning G.I.s at the end of World War II inadvertently killed many concentration camp inmates by giving them big meals. It may take a month...
...recession. Fresh harbingers of both of these threats appeared last week. The unemployment rate, which had dipped unexpectedly to 5.8% in September, returned to 6% last month-a sign of a softening economy. But other figures showed business continuing to perk along despite attempts to dampen inflation by curbing growth. Prices charged by wholesalers rose another 1% in October, while the index of "leading" indicators, which is supposed to foreshadow future economic trends, rose by a strong 0.8% in September. The net effect: the mild downturn that both the Administration and the Federal Reserve desire seems to have been postponed...
Bell said the worldwide switch from capital-saving to capital-using technologies has strained the economy. "Unless there is some degree of economic growth, you're not going to be able to pay for" new technologies, he said...