Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that would favor those who "have borne the battle." Veterans of any war are entitled to a crucial extra five points on the civil service exam. If disabled vets pass the test, they automatically go to the top of the hiring list no matter how many others have scored higher...
...perhaps tolerable when federal pay was not competitive with the private sector, but that is no longer the case. Secretaries, stenographers, keypunch operators and other clerical employees for the Government often earn more than similar workers in private industry. Average hourly wages for U.S. postal employees are one-third higher than the average for insurance and telephone companies and electric utilities...
...presidents could easily manage the press, President Carter would have a much higher popularity rating, former President Gerald R. Ford would have been reelected, and former President Richard M. Nixon would not have been forced to resign, he said...
...Higher education will be much more democratized by 2000, because it will be more available to everyone, he said...
...University's often-questioned, sometimes-praised approach to intercollegiate athletics distinguishes Harvard, and the Ivy League in general, from many other institutions of higher education...