Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever prosperity does exist does certainly not apply to the nation as a whole. There are pockets of unemployment, glossed over in Republican campaign speeches; there are farmers whose debts and costs are higher, and whose incomes are lower, than they have been since the Depression; there are innumerbable small businesses that are struggling desperately to stay above water, caught between high taxes and high costs. Thus, while small business strains and the farmer sweats and the unemployed look elsewhere, the GOP shouts of a new era of gliter and polish...
...remains to be seen, however. whether apparent trends toward more rigid social stratification will not make it even more difficult for the lower classes to get higher education...
Politically, Reischauer found a strong and healthy belief in democracy. "Ever since the last war," he maintains, "the Japanese have never doubted that the ballot box would decide the major issues." A higher percentage of people vote in the Japanese elections than do here, and the elected governments now have eleven years of successful rule under their belts...
...illegal and that we must be good citizens and uphold the law. They ignore the fact that Cambridge residents are rarely fined for overnight parking and add insult to injury by levying fines which are almost three times as high as Cambridge's. The Administration explains that the higher rates and stricter enforcement are necessary because Cambridge fines are too low and too rarely enforced. Just why the University does not urge Cambridge to enforce its own laws is not explained. Nor do they explain why the Harvard student must be a better citizen of Cambridge than the actual residents...
...current offer was interpreted as a concession to less skilled workers rather than employees on higher wage scales...