Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing to offer us. We pay lower dues and get higher benefits," Ready said. The AFL argues that affiliation with a national union would put University employees in a stronger bargaining position...
Ready claimed that the AFL wanted to take over University employees in order to use University wages and benefits as a standard for all New England colleges. The University is one of the few New England institutions not under AFL control, and pays higher wages than any comparable employer...
...cause of the competition is obvious: "In 1925 practically all applicants who had completed their premedical requirements were admitted to medical school, and the Class A schools still had 1,500 vacancies." Twenty-five years later, despite higher standards for admission, 24,000 students applied for 7,000 places in the freshman classes of the nation's medical schools...
...Higher policy, however, dictated the removal of the air and naval officers. In the succeeding months, U.S.-Soviet relations continued to deteriorate, and reached a nadir when American communists came to Moscow for the Seventh Congress of the Communist International in August, 1935--a patent violation of the agreement of recognition signed less than two years earlier. Ambassador Bullitt was crushed by what he considered a personal defeat as well as a slap in the face to his country. Though he advocated significant reductions in the staff of the Moscow embassy, he once again emphasized the importance of close relations...
These comments contradicted a statement Dodds made in his announcement of the survey. Dodds said he did not think the solution of the national college problem would be "sought in the area of higher standards and more rigorous selection of those who go to college...