Word: lower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students at the meeting charged that Harvard's admissions procedures were geared to admit affluent students. This bias was especially hard on blacks, they said, because they occupy the lower rungs on the economic scale...
Robert C. Lower '69, manager of the Glee Club, explained, "We hope the changes will allow us to better meet the demands of both the community and singers for a more various musical program...
...sluggish first period, earned $222 million-an 84% increase that beat General Motors' 17% profit rise (to $457 million) but not Chrysler's impressive 280% jump (to $69.3 million) over the same quarter last year, when it was hit by an unusually severe combination of higher costs, lower sales...
...jobs, but they ran up a hefty $7.5 billion trade deficit. Says Finance Chairman Robert C. Tyson of U.S. Steel Corp.: "America generally has become less competitive than it was. Companies of other nations, frequently with American-aided modern capacity, often with government subsidy and protection, and universally with lower wage rates, can now effectively compete with American companies...
...back to Math around 4:30 and sit down on the public relations ledge over Broadway. People from the Peace Demonstration are depositing money and food in a bucket at the bottom of a rope. Each time we haul it up and re-lower it we include I.D.'s for people who want to get into the campus. A remarkable number of cars toot their support, and when a bus-driver pulls over to wave to us a victory sign ten people nearly fall off the ledge for ecstasy...