Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston University finished third, followed by Boston College, MIT, and Northeastern. Brandeis was not present because the Judges felt they were not strong enough to compete on such a high level...
Test results have shown that one-third of the freshmen at state colleges in New Jersey are almost illiterate. So the state senate passed a bill requiring all public high school students to demonstrate at least a ninth-grade level of proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic before qualifying for a state-approved diploma. Then Senator Francis X. Herbert, who doubles as a high school English teacher, discovered that the senators could also use some drill in the fundamentals. The bill misspelled explicit as explict, minimum as minmum and remediation as remediaton. Conceded Sponsor Matthew Feldman: "Sure...
...profit in three or four years, they are gambling in the currency markets in hopes of making an overnight gain on a falling dollar or rising yen. That is one reason why business investment and economic growth in most Western industrial countries are running at only half the level of the 1960s...
...debauches a currency by reducing its purchasing power. As long as the West German inflation rate is under 3% while the American rate is more than 8%, the dollar will continue to depreciate, and the mark will rise. An austerity program that brings American inflation down toward the German level is an inescapable move to support the dollar...
...annual gathering of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank is not so much a meeting as a medium: a chance for about 3,500 bankers and finance officials to indulge in top-level gossiping, politicking and partying. At last week's session in Washington the talk, in refreshing contrast to last year's meeting, was surprisingly upbeat...