Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other Takeyama diagnoses: "The higher the educational level among Japanese youth, the more suicides-for education enables them to feel their frustrations more acutely. Of university and high-school students, 40% have contemplated suicide at least once. Juvenile delinquents rarely consider it, because they take out their frustrations in criminal acts against society...
...team. "They flashed by us like jet planes," Penny recalls. "Betsy and I just looked at each other, speechless. We thought we should have stayed at home." Neither of the girls did well in the Olympics. Says Penny philosophically: "All we did was get our first dose of higher education at Cortina...
...TURBINE ENGINES will be sold by G.M.'s Allison Division for testing in trucks. Two of the biggest problems, high cost and fuel consumption, are almost whipped. Allison says high-power gas turbines now can be mass-produced "at a price no higher than for equivalent" gasoline or diesel engines, and that a big power plant, e.g., 500 h.p., turbine costs less to operate...
...attractive offer. For two shares of Aluminium the new group would pay $10.92 in cash, plus a share of Tube stock worth $11.62-an average of $11.27 vthe $8.40 offer from Alcoa. To a hurriedly called press conference, Lord Portal lamely explained that he had ignored the much higher Tube-Reynolds offer because an Alcoa deal was in the "longterm interests of the company." But he conceded that his real fear was that the "Reynolds family," led by Reynolds President Richard Reynolds Jr., would get day-to-day control of British Aluminium...
...President Pusey asserted that in order to avoid keeping college teaching "a depressed profession" any longer, higher education will have to seek increased help "from all the sources of support which have thus far been developed," including endowments, students and their families, alumni, business, foundations, and government...