Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until now there have been only a few isolated examples of pst-doctoral the student level," Perkins said...
...York City. When the fiscal crisis came crashing down three years ago, the city had to plead with its employees' pension funds for a bail-out. Basically, the city was penalized for providing more social services than anyone else: tuition-free colleges, welfare payments above rock-bottom poverty level and so forth. Blatant mismanagement gratly contributed to the city's problems. But the main feature of the crisis was New York's scuba-diving tax base, resulting from the flight of industrial capital. Companies fled for many reasons, ranging from the ones which relocated in Stamford, Connecticut to be nearer...
...term expires in January. Mexican-American ballots nailed down Texas' 26 electoral votes for Jimmy Carter in 1976, and he reciprocated by appointing more Hispanics to federal positions than any of his predecessors. But, while they hold 112 of 1,201 presidentially assigned posts, none are at the Cabinet level. Hispanics hold only 3.4% of jobs in the federal bureaucracy, while blacks hold 16%, and the Hispanic proportion of federal jobholders has inched up only .7% in the past ten years. The same pattern holds true at state and local levels...
Miami's black community, which makes up 16% of the local population, is particularly resentful. Garth Reeves, publisher of the black Miami Times, warns of black hostility because of competition with Hispanics for low-cost public housing and lower-level service jobs that formerly were a black preserve. Says Reeves: "Before the Cuban influx, blacks had most of the hotel jobs, now they have less than 2%." One reason for this decline is that many jobs now require both English and Spanish, and most blacks do not speak the latter...
...issue is a simple one. Where a press is not free to go, we shall remain uniformed. And the greater guilt lies with the Communist and Third World countries who, increasingly, are seeking to reduce the level of free reportage in these countries. At this moment, there are resolutions by these countries in UNESCO on the "responsibilities" of joirnalists--by which they mean not to report what is observed...