Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conscious change in goals during the last five years, largely under the direction of its chief officers and several dynamic committee chairmen. What was once a social center for Victorian do-gooders has sharpened its aims to include specific educational and socio-economic programs at a neighborhood or institutional level. To implement these more expensive and sophisticated programs, PBHA has amended or altered its constitutions almost annually for decades...
...other areas of education, Johnson is asking for increased federal spending. The President recommended $100 million more in loan funds for undergraduates and $70 million more for graduate students. The total reduction in spending for construction and equipment at the college level, however, is more than half a billion dollars...
...unqualified Volunteers in inadequate positions, misplacing qualified Volunteers? It has taken us most of seven years to realize our potential and our limitations. Technological skills are needed, and many Volunteers provide them. One minister of education has stated, "We have only ten Botswana nationals teaching at the post-primary level in Botswana out of a total complement of some 125 teachers.... For several years we are going to have to rely upon these Volunteers and speaking on behalf of the government, we are very happy to do so." Attitudinal qualities have been identified in nations such as India, where...
...freely and create a hero good for all violent communities everywhere, always. Again in The Old Man and The Sea ('57), this time more emphatically, Tracy staged the trick of giving a fine performance, dominating the picture, and yet failing somehow to elevate the whole product to his own level...
Larry attributes a 10 per cent increase in his grades to his impoved reading ability (present reading level...