Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary Gardner answers that national testing is more likely to help local taxpayers use their schools more effectively than to give the Federal Government more influence. Opponents of assessment, insists Columbia Teachers College President John Fischer, are "suggesting that the more we know, the worse we might behave." Fischer proposes that the exact opposite is closer to the truth...
...Outside Help. The climb, to be sure, was not all due to internal causes. Much of it has come since President John son's State of the Union message; along with such bitter pills as higher taxes, the President also promised such palliatives as easier money and spoke against the wartime wage and price controls that Wall Street fears. In addition, last week came predictions from Washington that last year's sharp rise in consumer prices was likely to ease off this year, which also pleases the Street. By March, if the market does indeed roll into...
...year-old Commodity Exchange, which also trades in copper, tin, silver, lead, zinc, hides and rubber, hopes that quotations stretching up to 18 months in the future will help to level off mercury's price swings. Though gamblers may now play the mercury market, the chief advantage of futures trading falls to big mercury users. They can buy ahead if prices seem to be headed up, need pay only $500 per contract until actual delivery. If they hold large inventories, they can sell to hedge against the possibility of losing money on falling prices...
...past ten years or more, the school fees of a private university have jumped nearly ten-fold! Except for the children of rich families, most students have found it exceedingly difficult to pay such a big sum for school fees. In order to make some money, they cannot help, as soon as the school bell rings to dismiss school, rushing to various hotels, restaurants, and coffee houses to fight for jobs as dish-washers, waiters, baby-sitters, etc. They often work from 4 o'clock in the afternoon straight to midnight; after that they drag their tired bodies back...
...looks like mere segregation of girls from boys. In reality it is discrimination against the girl students. Large numbers of university girls study domestic science. All day long what they study is how to marry wealthy husbands of their choice, how to manage their home affairs, and how to help their husbands climb up the ladder. These represent the outlook on life of many an American girl student...