Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schools, like Brooklyn College or City College. In the 1970s, the pressures of an egalitarian society brought on the policy of open admissions, which guaranteed a place in one of the CUNY colleges to anyone graduating from a New York City public high school. Since an eighth grade reading level and little else was required to graduate from most city high schools, this policy brought on a rapid and large-scale decline in the quality of students in CUNY and in the quality of a CUNY education itself. Professors who could have been spending their time communicating the wonders...
...means well, but it remains to be seen if Uncle Ed can cope with the city's problems all by himself. The borough of Brooklyn can't be saved by people in Washington, or Albany, or even Manhattan; it has to save itself at the grass roots level, through community organizations and the spirit of self-help. That spark of life just doesn't seem to be present anymore...
...Policy Committee, a group of "high level" administrators formed last summer to deal with problems of athletic eligibility, reached the decision last November. The policy will be reviewed after four years...
...final form of the bill differed substantially from the recommendations of the 189-page report published by the Cox committee. The original report proposed that the present seven types of court be merged into a two-tiered system with the justices serving either on the district court level or on the superior court level...
Nonetheless, prior to last week's meeting the 13 OPEC countries were badly split over the level of next year's price. Libya, Algeria and Iraq demanded increases of up to 23%. Libya muttered about raising prices unilaterally or walking out of the meeting. Nigeria, Indonesia and Venezuela, badly in need of more oil income to pay for instant industrialization projects, were making weak requests for an increase of 5% or so. They argued that a boost was needed to make up for worldwide inflation and the dropping value of the dollar, which has cost them 20¢ per bbl. this...