Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practically eradicate the Youth Conservation Corps., does much more than eliminate wasteful government spending--it exposes the President as a man with little commitment to millions of jobless Americans. Today's unemployment rate of six per cent is fine by Jimmy Carter. And apparently, so is the higher unemployment rate his in-house economists boldly predict for the year's end if Carter's proposed budget cuts and ever-higher interest rates come to pass. It is more than a little ironic that the people who suffer the most from high inflation--the poor, the jobless, the sick...
Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy last night called the move "very unfortunate." He said, "Nobody likes to see a firm with that many jobs leave. Unemployment is much higher than we'd like...
Faculty members at Boston University (B.U.) said yesterday they may strike this April unless the B.U. administration meets their demands for higher pay and more input into the decision-making processes...
...slightly higher level of technology, Colombia drug traffickers have started to manufacture and smuggle other drugs, most notably a counterfeit line of Quaaludes, a prescription brand of the sedative methaqualone. At least five presses for making the white pills have been smuggled into Colombia recently. For 100 apiece, they churn out tablets of methaqualone that are being popped at 35 times that price in the U.S. Last month, during a raid on a marijuana warehouse on the Guajira peninsula, soldiers found a million fake Quaaludes...
...pirouette. In other spins he slows down suddenly, as if sinking into his own momentum. For sheer bravura, the high light is a series of leaps that resemble a broad jumper's hitch kick. He kicks into the air with the left leg, brings the right even higher, executing in effect a double jump suspended in air. Robbins, who worked out this unprecedented move with Baryshnikov, calls it a temps de flèche. To Ballet Master John Taras it is a grand pas de basque. Baryshnikov describes it as a jeté pass...