Word: higher
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Faculty at the higher rated schools--including Harvard and Yale--said that entering students evidenced no decline in academic competence though grade inflation is still cited as a major problem by this group of academics...
...higher road, paved by Eric Ambler and Graham Greene and improved by Le Carré, leads to an ambiguous plane where neither side has a moral exclusive. The flares of hot and cold wars illuminate enemies with human faces. The agent's mind is as balkanized as the lands he travels; betrayal becomes a way of life. The message no longer echoes national anthems but T.S. Eliot's Gerontion: "Think/ Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices/ Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues/ Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes...
...Nine months after the Watergate breakin, Safire left the White House and took a columnist's job at the New York Times. He had a previous offer from the Washington Post Co., but Publisher Arthur Sulzberger met him at a dinner in New York and made a higher bid-reportedly $50,000. That sizable salary, and his early columns defending Nixon against Watergate charges, did not endear Safire to many Times colleagues. But readers found him a lively contrast to the paper's other, mostly liberal and often solemn political columnists-Anthony Lewis, James Reston and Tom Wicker...
...their fourth consecutive contract dispute with Yale University since 1968, local 35 of the AFI-CIO Federation of University Employees went on strike last Friday, demanding higher wages and increased job security...
...real question, then, is simply whether there should be more minorities in higher education and positions of responsibility. It is a question--as Paul Freund, Loeb University Professor Emeritus, put it--that would stir little debate in this country if posed in reference to South Africa, say, or other nations actively following discriminatory policies...