Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stayed beneath $100 billion, despite weeks of White House leaks warning of a higher figure. Dunphy presented the council with a budget which would have raised the tax rate by six or eight dollars, but when the hearings on the budget were over, the rate remained at the same level as last year. Dunphy and the councillors transferred money from capital to current accounts, and trimmed $300,000 from the School Department budget without much difficulty...
...composition requirement and permitted creation of more advanced courses to satisfy basic Gen Ed requirements. This liberalization of the Gen Ed rules, Ford points out, permits students with better training to take advanced Gen Ed courses, while students with weaker high school training still have more basic lower-level courses...
Modern Hero. The frustration is felt t almost every level of Spanish life and has taken particularly deep root among Spain's 12 million workers, whose labor syndicates are creatures of Franco's government and easily bend to its will. In hopes of lobbying for labor gains, Spain's workers have boldly launched a grass-roots organization of their own as a rival to the syndicates. Called the Workers' Commissions movement, it has spread rapidly iow has chapters in factories all over Spain; it has also reached some white-collar employees, such as bank clerks...
...year, the wing has lost the equivalent of a squadron - 20 Phantoms. One crew out of seven can expect to be shot down during its tour of duty, for recon missions, unlike the swift, darting thrusts of fighter-bomber strikes, often require four to five minutes of straight and level cruising at low altitude...
Mortified Labor. As soon as the Mirror's 5,000,000 readers got a glimpse of this diatribe, the pound plummeted to its lowest post-devaluation level, and King was widely criticized by politicians and press alike. Among the most mortified were some of the members of the Mirror group's board of directors who belong to the Labor Party and still support Wilson. Adding to their distress was the fact that King rarely took the trouble to consult them on important matters. Moreover, profits declined somewhat last year, taking some of the gloss off the years...