Word: lower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lower the flags of our country to half staff until there is liberty, freedom and justice...
...single shot. "It was like a stick of dynamite," recalled one aide. "It sounded like a firecracker, and I thought it was a pretty poor joke," said another. All of the aides hit the deck. The heavy-caliber bullet smashed through King's neck, exploded against his lower right jaw, severing his spinal cord and slamming him away from the rail, up against the wall, with hands drawn tautly toward his head. "Oh Lord!" moaned one of his lieutenants as he saw the blood flowing over King's white, button-down shirt...
...fact, the incidence of heart ailments decreased on each succeeding higher rung of the executive ladder. Supported by funds from the National Heart Institute, the study also showed that the most rapidly promoted men suffered no more - and usually less - heart dis ease than employees who remained at lower levels. Managers transferred from one Bell System company to another-considered prime stress targets because of the domestic and professional adjustments involved in the move - exhibited no more coronary troubles than those who had never been transferred...
Studying Bell statistics for the reasons behind the difference, Hinkle and his research team found a link with education and, more important, family background. The figures showed that Bell's college-educated employees had a disabling-coronary-disease rate 30% lower than the company's noncollege workers. Behind the statistic there ap peared to be a significant difference in family health and diet patterns that persisted throughout the employees' adult hood. Most of the college men came from smaller, healthier families. They were slimmer, taller, smoked and ate less. Their fathers lived longer. The differences may have...
Afro had asked for an endowed chair for a black professor, more courses relevant to blacks, more lower level black Faculty members, and admissions of blacks in proportion to their percentage of the population as a whole...