Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owing to inadequate education, lack of skills, or a steady exposure to the barriers of racial discrimination, are chronically unemployed or underemployed. With in walking distance of Harvard are public facilities -- schools, hospitals, and recreation areas--that are dilapidated, undermanned, and poorly equipped. Congestion and ugliness are not hard to find--they lie a dozen steps from the entrance to the Yard or to the Medical School...
...professors in Afro-American studies that the report requests. All of the country's major colleges are involved in a fierce drafting rivalry for the same ten men Harvard wants. The supply is so drastically limited that even with an inundative recruiting campaign, Harvard will have a hard time finding its ten professors...
...competitive nature of the computer business," it cited the fact that more than 60 systems manufacturers and some 4,000 companies dealing in related parts have been attracted to an industry that was "virtually non-existent 20 years ago." Nevertheless, IBM Chairman Thomas Watson Jr. now has to ponder hard before moving to expand his firm's three-quarters hold on the market...
...last year's ten fastest-growing funds, only four exceeded $10 million in assets. Fastest rising was the Neuwirth Fund, which has assets of $94 million and achieved 90% growth. In 1967 -a year in which it was hard to do badly-Neuwirth grew 300%. But 1968, as 36-year-old Manager Henry Neuwirth says, "was more on the selective side." Neuwirth selected a number of long-depressed insurance stocks (CNA Financial, Safeco) early in the year, then rode them up as insurance companies became sought-after merger candidates...
...HARD BOILED New Englanders may snort at tales of California winters. Let them; California has heard Eastern snorts before. Granted, "cold Spells" that lead to mid-winter lows of 25 or 26 degrees may not sound too impressive to people living east of Palm Springs. They don't really sound that impressive to most Californians, since many of them once lived in states with snow and real winters...