Word: lowe
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Unlike the Legal Aid Society and Voluntary Defenders--the traditional legal aid bureaus of the school--CLAO seeks to minimize its open ties with Harvard in favor of active participation in the neighborhood. Its cramped offices are located in a low-income neighborhood in East Cambridge, not in what the local poor regard as the "other Cambridge" around Harvard...
...into the Law School curriculum, it will undoubtedly continue to produce spillover benefits for law school classes. Early in November, CLAO workers produced 57 legal memoranda covering 313 single-spaced pages on topics of "poverty law." The Massachusetts Bar Association plans to use them for legal educational programs for low-income groups...
...results of a major survey of math instruction in twelve nations* released last week, the U.S. is startlingly remiss in teaching its children how to add, subtract or solve calculus problems. Despite U.S. prestige as the world's leading technological power, American 13-year-olds ranked a low eleventh in their understanding of math-outscoring only children from Sweden, and lagging well behind those from Japan...
...been estimated that 90% of the nonprofessional speculators are consistent losers. But like horse racing, the losers continue to come back for more. Because of the low margin requirements-the buyer has to put up a maximum of 10%-risk takers can afford to speculate. The board watches all activity closely, and so does the Commodity Exchange Authority in Washington, which is anxious to see the margin requirement increased...
...search for life's meaning also runs through End of the Road. "In a sense, I am Jacob Horner," the book's narrator begins, with typical uncertainty. Then he conducts a tour along the "weatherless" days of his life. Hornet suffers low-pressure areas during which he ceases to function. Hypnotized by the multitude of life's choices, he can make no choice at all. The novel is partly autobiographical. It is laid in Maryland, where Earth grew up; Horner teaches English at Wicomico State Teachers College, while Earth teaches English at the Buffalo campus...