Word: highness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ecoactivists include groups as straight-arrow as the Girl Scouts, who last week campaigned for clean air in places ranging from Hartford, Conn., to smog-threatened Fairfax, Va. Among other young ecoactivists are the Ashland (Wis.) High School juniors who recently demonstrated in support of Duluth's Pollution Enforcement Conference. Alarmed at the growing damage to Lake Superior's ecology, they plan to confront dumpers of industrial wastes that are slowly polluting the only Great Lake that can still be called clean...
...meeting last month in the White House, members of the committee (which includes the Secretaries of Defense, Labor, Health, Education and Welfare) were particularly concerned about one segment of the 2.7 million veterans who have been discharged in the Viet Nam era. Among the 500,000 vets who are high school dropouts, only about 4% are heading back to class...
...have to cope with more possible student disorders, plus the angry local residents whose homes impede the university's needed expansion. He will deal with trustees whose unquestioned talents are too often diverted to their own eminent careers. While some Columbia graduate schools have become untouchable fiefdorns, the high quality of some academic departments (sociology, government, philosophy) has declined. In average faculty salaries, Columbia now ranks a mere 25th among U.S. universities. Worst of all, Columbia expects an $11 million deficit next. year. The new president will have to raise that much just to break even, then raise more...
...change in society's attitude toward procreation. As things now stand, social and institutional pressures tend to stigmatize the childless couple - not to mention the single person - as "abnormal." Smith concedes that such an attitude had its use in the past; it "evolved over millennia to ensure high enough fertility to overcome high mortality." Now, however, medical progress has made that notion obsolete. Smith proposes that the reform start with the elimination of tax advantages for big families...
...figure was heightened by a book keeping fluke. Americans have been making large deposits of dollars in Eu rope, where they have commanded interest rates as high as 12.5%. U.S. banks, pinched for funds, have borrowed many of these dollars to re-lend in the U.S. These "turnaround" dollars count as a capital outflow when deposited in Europe, but do not count as an off setting inflow when re-loaned in the U.S. Government economists say this distortion may have accounted for $2 billion of the $5.5 billion first half pay ments deficit...