Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospering middle-class professionals, was in an innovative mood. It approved when Merlin Ludwig, then superintendent of schools, granted West's 1,040 students a nonvoting chair on the board of education in 1970. Ludwig also introduced a more flexible curriculum. Grades were abolished at the elementary-school level, and a pass-fail option was installed at West. As a final gesture, Ludwig declared a new motto for his school district: "Iowa City Puts the Student First." In short, West in many ways came to resemble a college more than a high school...
Britain's national exam system is even tougher than France's. At 16 students may take O Levels, or ordinary exams. Some 70% now "sit" at least one O Level, but only 33% manage to pass one. Those who perform well may undertake the even tougher A Level advanced exams two years later. A Levels are comparable in difficulty to sophomore work at an American university. Only 12% to 16% of students progress that far; only 10% are finally admitted to university...
...Island lumber firm, says he was offered insulation in September by a salesman from National Gypsum, a distributor for Owens-Corning, for 20% above the prevailing price. He refused to buy, yet the incident convinced him that whatever profiteering is going on is occurring at "the middleman's level...
None of the stiffer penalties at the state level are expected to do much good. Buttlegging has a lot going for it: a touch of high adventure, the allure of beating taxes, and profit. Nor are Mob connections needed to make a go of it. An individual entrepreneur with a van can load up in North Carolina or Virginia, where the state tax is only 2? or 2½? a pack, head north on Interstate 95 (now known as Tobacco Road) and sell the cigarettes at a high profit hi New York and Connecticut, where state and local taxes...
...techniques. He says that his investigators have information implicating a dozen other salesmen in illegal surgery, including one case in which the factory representative had to remove a drill that became stuck in a patient's skull during brain surgery. Adds Lifflander: "What we found is that the level of incompetence among surgeons is a lot greater than anyone imagined...