Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economics is only part of the story. For many African Americans, black colleges promise a level of academic and social support that mostly white campuses cannot match. "Psychologically, a black student is going to feel better about himself at a black college," says Barry Beckham, editor of The Black Student's Guide to Colleges. At schools such as Dillard, Fisk, Morehouse and Howard, black students say they feel a surge of self-esteem directly traceable to the experience of being the majority race on campus...
Both Newhouse and Manning said they hoped their study will help in the debate over "sin" taxes, adding that additional taxes on liquor or cigarettes must be implemented on a federal level to prevent interstate bootlegging...
...identical increases in the Labor Department's Producer Price Index mean that prices one stop short of the retail level are 12.6 percent higher, on an annual rate, than at the start...
Despite the severe price hikes in February at the finished goods level, increases earlier in the production process were more moderate. Prices at the intermediate level rose 0.5 percent while the cost of crude goods dipped 0.1 percent after two months of increases above 3 percent. A loaf of bread is an example of an item at the finished goods level, flour at the intermediate level and wheat at the crude level...
...Whenever we hit low, we never woke up quick enough to level it off," Harvard coach Ihsan Gurdal said. "The MIT team never played different. When they beat us, they played the same; when they lost to us, they played the same. It's us that's making the difference and I think we need to find a remedy for that...