Word: heavier
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...state of Kerala, in southwest India, is overpopulated even by Indian standards, and life is hard for its 20 million residents. For the state's 2,600,000 Latin-and Syrian-rite Catholics, the burden is even heavier. Strictly loyal to papal birth-control teachings, Catholic families, some with incomes of less than $350 a year, often have between eight and 15 children. Thus dowries for marriageable girls are out of the question. Under such conditions, an opportunity to send a daughter off to a European convent was like a godsend-and hundreds of families took advantage...
...family, gender roles are ideologically reinforced. Girls, for instance, are taught to cook and sew passively, in imitation of their mothers; boys are encouraged to be aggressive in imitation of their fathers. Biologically, she argues, there is little real difference between the sexes, beyond the specific genital characteristics. The heavier musculature of the male, she admits, is biological in origin but culturally encouraged through breeding, diet and exercise. In any case, she says, physical strength is not a factor in political relations, because "civilization has always been able to substitute other methods (technic, weaponry, knowledge) for those of physical strength...
WEST GERMANY. A recent television program explained ways in which German women are discriminated against in factory jobs. It showed a woman and man spraying autos in a factory. The man received 20% more salary because he did "heavier" work. While the woman was spraying the doors, the man was spraying the chassis, supposedly a harder job. A few German women are beginning to challenge the country's traditional male autocracy. When Bundestag Vice President Richard Jaeger recently refused access to the rostrum to any female Deputy in slacks, Socialist Deputy Lenelotte von Bothmer arrived in a pants suit...
...ultras, last week fired Dubček as ambassador. The news of his ouster reached Ankara through the Soviet communications network. The Czechoslovak charge d'affaires was summoned to the Russian embassy to learn of Dubček's dismissal. Late last week a far heavier blow fell on Dubček. The Central Committee expelled him from his 32-year membership in the Communist Party, an act that relegated him to the limbo status of an unperson...
This viewpoint overlooks some obvious advantages of merger. Many functions that are presently carried on separately could be joined, such as Buildings and Grounds, Comptroller's offices, career planning offices, and probably the Admissions offices. Although the immediate impact would be a heavier drain on Harvard funds, the following drop in Radcliffe's expenses would compensate in the long...