Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two years of upcreep, the Federal Government's consumer price index leveled out last summer, even slipped downward a little in August under the delayed drag of the recession. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in October the ups and downs averaged out and the index held steady for the second month in a row at the August level of 123.7 (the 1947-49 average = 100). Up: new cars, women's and girls' clothing, rents, medical care, cooking gas, fresh vegetables, beef, milk. Down: house furnishings, men's and boys' clothing...
...uncomfortable can have beneficial results: it can force military leaders to cut down on overlap, make choices between concepts and weapons. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, backed up by the President, has tried to hold the 1960 defense budget to a distinctly uncomfortable $41.6 billion, i.e., this year's level plus a 2% inflation factor. And one result of the painful ceiling is that the Pentagon is taking hard-eyed looks at duplication and obsolescence among the U.S.'s twoscore missile programs...
...intermediate courses within the near future, for they feel the situation here is even worse than in the elementary courses. "By the time, a student gets to his second year," Geary comments, "he is often sick and tired of languages. We should give them more differentiated courses at this level...
...often in some totally unrelated course to the language they are teaching). As Francis M. Rogers, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, points out, "Everytime we find a particularly good elementary teacher, he just gets picked off to be a section man in French 20 or some other upper-level course. The result is that the elementary teaching never gets above a certain level...
...that some advancement has been made in the reading of German; on two separate occasions, teaching fellows gained promotions on the basis of their ability in elementary courses rather than by seniority or by academic accomplishments. But this is only a half-way solution. The teacher in the lower level course will then work as hard as he can to get his promotion but the fact may also be that if he gets the promotion, he can get out of teaching the elementary course and enter a more challenging field. The problem then remains--how to keep a steady flow...