Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temporary and was largely owed to the currently depressed price of raw materials. When the common market comes into being, however, they will be faced with a probable 29% duty on all English cars they hope to sell on the Continent. This duty is not higher than at present, but the difference is that German Volkswagens will sell in France, and Renault Dauphines in Germany, without paying such heavy duty...
...researchers found that the two groups ate, drank, smoked and exercised about the same. But the driving men had significantly higher levels of cholesterol (a substance involved in atherosclerosis) circulating in their systems, their blood had a shorter clotting time, and they had about seven times as much heart disease...
...team actually performed operations on 69 victims. In some cases they reamed out carotid and other arteries leading to the brain, in others they bypassed a completely shut-down stretch of artery with a Dacron tube to carry blood from a lower stretch of healthy artery to a higher one. Among the 69 cases they found 13 for whom they could do nothing, and had five failures, but in 51 cases they reported success. In some instances this was as great as relief from a substantial degree of paralysis, or loss of speech, or partial blindness, and the improvement...
...action taken against the free expression of student opinion. The second instance of restraint involves the broader issue of casting a blanket of silence around controversial speakers, by not allowing them to appear on college campuses. Such was the action taken by the Administrative Council of the Board of Higher Education of New York to prohibit persons convicted under the Smith Act from speaking at the city colleges...
...spite of spontaneous student protests, and long-range concentrated efforts to bring a wider and healthier atmosphere of conflict and controversy to college campuses, the students invariably emerge on the short end. Censorship, restriction, and pressure are harsh words, and when they are applied to institutions of higher learning, they strike at the real meaning of education, a meaning that those too long separated from the search for knowledge have forgotten...