Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the new directions seek to spur economic growth by encouraging higher productivity and renewed respect for China's educators and scientists. Teachers are now being told to spend nearly all their time in classroom work, rather than doing the manual labor so beloved by China's radicals. University entrance examinations, once scorned as "revisionist," have been reinstated. Some prominent victims of past ideological attacks have been restored to grace. Several hundred members of Shanghai's Academy of Sciences, who were once accused of being secret agents of Taiwan's Kuomintang, have been exonerated...
...distributors want to "roll in," or average out, the higher priced imported LNG with the price of domestic gas, currently held by federal regulation to $1.48 per 1,000 cu. ft. tops. That would hold down the price somewhat, but force the vast majority of customers who will not burn imported gas to pay part of the cost of supplying LNG to those who actually use it. That is indeed the basis on which the first LNG imports have been sold, but Energy Secretary James Schlesinger has denounced the plan as constituting a subsidy for imports. He favors "incremental" pricing...
This wrought-up lad moves on to higher, wider-ranging transgressions-from biting an usherette on the leg to raping and killing "little Suzie," his date at the junior prom. Yet each exploit is explained and excused by the same hard-rocking ironic chorus: "Well, he's just an excitable...
...nation-wide research group was originally investigating a higher prevalence of hypertension in blacks than in whites, and found that hypertension was 40 per cent less prevalent in college graduates than in those with less than ten years of schooling...
...PATTERSON aspired to a lot of things," Jim says, but he didn't put much effort into things he didn't care about. "The goodness of the person is hard to evaluate on paper. He broke a lot of rules he had no business breaking, he was contemptuous of higher-ups, he got into a lot of trouble, and people who didn't know him very well didn't like him. The magic of the guy was his personality and what he could contribute to a group of people...