Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Pusey stated flatly that "something is wrong" with a society which spends less than one per cent of its gross product for education. He particularly called attention to faculty salaries which today are lower in terms of real buying power than they were 25 years ago, and said that the American public had been "careless" in its attention to the teaching profession...
...backtrack by computer and find the hour when they were launched. Sputnik 1, the observatory said, took to space on Oct. 4 at 8 a.m. E.S.T. Sputnik 111 was launched in the middle of the afternoon on Nov. 1. Its orbit is more elliptical, rising higher and sinking lower, than the orbit of Sputnik...
...Booming Recession. Getting down to specifics, the forecasts hardly looked like a "recession" at all. Prices will probably go up 1%. Gross private investment is expected to decline some 5%, and corporate profits will be lower: some $41 billion before taxes, or about 3% less than 1957. But gross national product will stay level at this year's record $439 billion, and industrial production, as measured by the Federal Reserve's index, will only slip 1.5% or 2%, a barely noticeable drop compared to the 5% or 6% decline the U.S. experienced during the so-called 1954 recession...
Instead of English 10, which will pass out of existence this spring, the Department will accept a lower level Humanities course as "the proper avenue to concentration in English," Bate said...
...Weizsacker (who gave a course on Scientific Method at Harvard in Summer, 1952), in The World View of Physics or by Martin Buber in I and Thou? Is he prepared to reject all philosophical slantings from Hinduism on the dangers of the development of power by the exploitation of lower by higher intelligences or in the regarding of living beings as "things...