Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army is always a well-coached, well-practiced team which is very dangerous on its own courts, where a fast bounce and a higher court temperature than is found at most colleges make adjustment very difficult. However, not a single Harvard winner was forced past four games, and Gerry Emmet, who lost at third singles, was not in top physical shape for the match...
...Featherbeds. In the U.S. economy, labor productivity has hardly increased at all over the past two years. The No. 1 task of organized labor in the year ahead is not to use monopoly power to force wages up but to join in promoting the increased productivity that makes possible higher wages without higher prices. The need for increased productivity is nowhere more obvious than in Richard Gray's featherbedding building trades, which deliberately hold back output per man-hour through restrictive rules; e.g., painters must use brushes, not sprayers...
...taxpayers from the rolls entirely, gave his most substantial reductions to the 70% of Canadians whose taxable incomes are $2,000 a year or less; e.g., a $5,000-a-year wage earner with two children will save $64. Even though the Tories had earlier poured $150 million into higher old-age pensions and pay boosts for the armed forces and civil service, Fleming still came out in the black (predicted surplus: $80 million). For this he could thank the ousted Liberal regime; fearful of spurring inflation, the luckless Liberals had left $252 million unspent in the treasury...
...Though Russia has twice as many engineering students as does the U.S., her educational record in general is far less impressive. Although 183,800 were graduated from schools of higher education other than correspondence schools in 1955, only 10% of these were graduates of the five-year universities. "Soviet resident enrollment, including part-time evening students, in the last few years has been averaging less than half the number enrolled in American universities and colleges . . . Moreover, the fact that the number of resident students matriculated in the fall of 1955 showed a decrease of 5% over the previous year, while...
...spite of all the talk about giving the children of the proletariat first crack at higher education, those actually getting it are the children of "Party officials, civil servants, officers of the armed forces and other elite groups ... A French student who attended Moscow University in 1948 and a German student who enrolled at Leningrad University in 1953 estimated that some 50% of the student body were of such background while well under 10% were distinctly of working-class origin...