Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rush-hour traffic. The FAA estimates that at the nation's 9,950 airports only 17.6% of the takeoffs and landings are made by commercial planes, while 77.8% are made by smaller private and executive planes. At major metropolitan airports, the percentages for these "general aviation" planes run lower but are still great enough to cause plenty of delay. Commercial airports with the highest general aviation activity are Denver (72%), Houston (67%), St. Louis (58%), Miami...
...Establishment is a clique of some two hundred industrialists, politicians and ranking generals, whose close ties to the Crown have won them important business contracts, political influence and key commands. Greece's new rulers are country boys, who come from lower middle class or peasant families. "Papadopoulos was the richest of us all," says an officer loyal to the junta, "because his father was a schoolteacher." Papadopoulos & Co. are suspicious of intrigues in the big city, jealous of the rich and resentful of the favors that the Palace passed out to highly placed officers. In the past, any incursion...
...infant death are respiratory malfunction, low birth weight, premature birth, and congenital malformations of the circulatory, digestive and central nervous systems. Some of these factors are genetic, and irreversible. Thus there is a limit beyond which infant mortality cannot be reduced. Nonetheless, 320 U.S. counties have achieved a lower rate of 18.3 deaths per 1,000 births. Poor maternal health, malnutrition, inadequate sanitation and illegitimacy, predictably most prevalent in low-income communities, are also important factors. In Holland and Denmark, which have had a virtually uninterrupted decline in infant mortality since 1950, comprehensive mother and infant care has become...
...into contact with their government," explains Kallmann. "We wanted to draw them into it instead of letting them stand around outside." Thus, though the city hall is a bastion, it abounds in entrances, ramps, staircases, and a huge central courtyard-all suitable, as Kallmann points out, for sit-ins. Lower levels, which will have the most traffic, are reserved for public business, contain windows at which citizens can file complaints, get licenses, argue over assessments, and register to vote. Slung through the belly of the building, with hooded windows projecting outward, are the ceremonial rooms: on one side, the city...
Biggest reason for the increased prices was high wage settlements, which added an average 5% to business costs in 1967, while productivity (output per man-hour) gained only 3%. The disparity disturbs businessmen because it portends lower profits, or higher prices, or both. The 5% pattern had been established by the 1966 airline machinists' strike, which buried the Administration's once cherished 3.2% wage-price "guideposts." This fall, 5% became more of a floor than a ceiling. Auto workers won 7% increases from Ford, Chrysler and General Motors; Congress gave 705,000 postal workers a 6% raise (along...