Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense a stand on principle, but in another sense it was a lucky break for the steelworkers' Dave McDonald. After seeing most of their postwar wage gains canceled out by price upcreep, rank -and-file steelworkers were wary of following McDonald into a strike for higher wages. But when industry negotiators started talking about changing work rules, steelworkers began heeding his warnings that the bosses wanted to bring back the bad old days of "industrial dictatorship" and "assembly-line slaves...
Princeton & Gielgud. Despite A.J.C.'s pessimism, New York last week launched an impressive "Higher Horizons" program, aimed at the heart of the city's "unequal facilities" problem. The goal: a sharp rise in the aspirations and achievements of children in "less-favored" neighborhoods. Already New York has good evidence that the goal is reachable...
...year's routine. "Spiraling food costs," say the officials of the Dining Halls, "make another increase necessary this year." And so the routine goes, a hike two years ago, another of perhaps $40 next year. Harvard, with its $590 annual charge for food, has one of the higher--if not the highest--board rates in the entire nation, a doubtful distinction at best...
...Bowl" was comfortably filled for a game with Brown that held only slightly more interest. The difference: Yale invites Connecticut Boy Scouts, church youth groups, and miscellaneous youngsters' organizations to attend this early season event at a minimum rate, charging twenty-five cents apiece for the kids and slightly higher prices for their leaders...
...government of the United States has made a great step forward in the recognition of its role assuring opportunity for all who can profit by higher education. It seems unfortunate that such a forward step should be the occasion of doubt--doubt concerning the responsibility of our institutions of higher education, and doubt concerning the loyalty of those they seek to help along the road to greater service to their country. Robert F. Goheen, President...