Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spare the rod and spoil the child" may seem like a quaintly old-fashioned philosophy, but plenty of U.S. teachers still live by it. In a nationwide sampling of grade-school teachers by Grade Teacher magazine, nearly half of the 600 respondents said that they had hit at least one child during the last school year; 10% admitted, anonymously, that they had struck children more than five times. In addition, 70% reported that other teachers in their school had used physical punishment...
...campaign had begun soon after the Bethlehem announcement. Arguing that a 5% across-the-board increase was unreasonable, Johnson ordered Government agencies to buy steel only from companies that held the price line. Spearheading the attack was the Defense Department, whose 3.7 million-ton annual steel consumption (half of which goes for ammunition) accounts for nearly 4% of the industry's output...
...that he would leave Ford. He knew that Ford's presidency would not likely be open again until 1978, when Knudsen turns 65. Even then, the man next in line is Lee Iacocca, currently Ford's third-ranking executive and, at 43, a year and a half younger than Frey...
...market, but this season is one Wall Street would like to forget. Last week despite a feeble two-day rally, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 1.62 points, to wind up at 869.65. It was the fourth week in a row of steady losses that have erased more than half of the Dow's spring gains. From a peak of 923.72 on July 15, the average has dropped 54.07 points, reflecting a $7 billion loss in the market value of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks. Most other market indicators show remarkably similar declines...
...Hanky-Panky" makes no announcement of flights until about a half hour before they take off, McGuire notes, though the air-crews often suspect a flight is in the offing when the maintenance on a plane is finished and night approaches. Once the crews in their respective bars are alerted and "poured out into the planes," they take off on their flights for Biafra, juggling flight plans so as to fly always at night, when the Egyptians piloting Nigeria's MIG's refuse...