Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While conceding that Northern unemployment is higher, Southerners say they need their greater share of federal spending because they have more poverty to deal with. Nearly 14% of Southern families are classified as living in poverty, compared with less than 9% in the North, where pay packets are fatter. For example, per capita income in New England averaged $6,590 in 1976, while in the South Atlantic states it averaged $5,861. Northerners reply that their higher living costs, especially for fuel and taxes, make that statistical advantage meaningless. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, a Boston family of four...
Space scientists are confident, moreover, that before future generations face the fall of these satellites, they will have achieved a means of either sending other vehicles up to retrieve the circling craft or of hurl ing them into even higher orbits...
...notorious "Vive le Québec libre!" speech at Montreal's city hall. Around the same time, portions of Quebec's 850,000-member union movement turned to Marxist ideology, launching widespread strikes and demonstrations. In 1969, when Montreal police and firemen went on a 16-hour strike for higher pay, hundreds of thugs and militant students launched an orgy of robbing, burning and looting. Property damage came to $3 million; two men were shot dead...
...median income of those who graduated from Harvard's Master of Business Administration (MBA) program ten years ago is $42,000 compared to $32,000 for a similar group of Stanford alumni, partly because Harvard MBA's tend to work in New York and Boston, where business salaries are higher than on the West Coast...
...Koenig, a second-year student in the MBA program, said yesterday Harvard MBAs receive higher business salaries because of "a real, functioning old-boy network. People know what a Harvard MBA is, but they're unsure of the value of Stanford...