Word: highers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "It's one of the really great intelligence problems: where to put your talent and your time." In recent years, intelligence has concentrated on the areas of greatest concern: the Middle East and SALT. Given higher priority in Washington, the Soviets could have been detected much sooner. The best intelligence that money can buy still depends on basic political judgments...
...world price of 90. In return, the Soviets sell Cuba nearly all the oil it burns, at $14 per bbl., about one-third below the world price The Soviets and the Eastern bloc also buy most of Cuba's nickel, its other major export, at prices about 50% higher than world levels, and fund most of Cuba's industrial development. Projects financed by the U.S.S.R. supply 30% of all Cuba's electricity, 95% of its steel and every last pound of its sheet metal All together Soviet aid has doubled since 1976 to about $3 billion...
...annual turnover rate is between 25 and 40 per cent. But almost 70 per cent of the people leaving do so because they want to return to school, often to the Ed School itself. "A lot of employees are marking time between undergraduate and graduate schools," she says. "The higher turnover in support staff is frequently due to our hiring people taking their first or second jobs. They don't plan to stay in them...
...professionalism is unquestionably here to stay, and with the department's efforts to implement the Howland report recommendations, the union is left to concentrate on higher wages and better benefits in the upcoming contract negotiations. Despite the police budget of over $2 million, the administration will undoubtedly consider a wage hike that even approximates the rate of inflation unthinkable. As Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, says, "We're all in a tough position. Inflation is hitting all of us and our resources are just not increasing...
...should go even further and require ETS to make available any ETS data that would allow outside individuals to evaluate the tests. But as it stands, the law is a big step forward, which ETS and the various College Boards should not hinder with limited testing, higher prices or boycotts...