Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government employees, spiraling pension costs, and the liquidation of state bonds with delayed maturation dates. Meanwhile, expanded state aid to cities and towns is urgently needed, he insists, to counter seriously inadequate municipal services and to reduce the tax on real property--currently standing at a per capita level higher than any other state in the nation. In all, his January budget message called for a $423-million outlay for next year (compared to ex-Governor Herter's last budget of $387 million). Furcolo's recommendations would require $130 million in new revenue, of which $75 million would be returned...
...been a part of serious higher education since classical times. From Harvard, it spread rapidly over the country. At present, many major universities including Yale, Chicago, and California are expanding their departments. Geography at Harvard reached its peak of eight faculty members in 1928, and continued at this level until 1948. In 1948, the University, in effect, abandoned the teaching of geography. The reason given was: "Harvard cannot hope to have strong departments in everything...
Sophisticated students may speak with contempt of the A and those who seek it, but when they accept a lower mark, perhaps a B-, as minimal for self-respect, they still operate under the same false standards. They are misled into believing that B-stands for some important, measurable level of learning...
...heretofore staunch backers have also taken issue with the Administration. Earlier this month Frazar B. Wilde, President of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. and a member of the Committee for Economic Development (which has usually been in Ike's corner), warned a congressional committee that the rising level of federal spending would lead to more inflation, questioned the need for increased federal funds for agriculture and for buying home mortgages-both policies backed by the Administration...
...resulting level of performance, such difficult music, particularly the Brahms, was hardly recognizable and should not have been attempted...