Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Group IV students with three B-pluses and one C-plus receive 37 grade points, while those in Group II with one and a half A-minuses and two and a half B-minueses receive only 36 and a half points, and thus rank lower in their class...
Defense spending in 1966 was lower compared to the country's total product of goods and services than in four of the previous five years -- even including the Vietnam spending. But the question -- according to McNamara -- is "do we have the will power? And I don't think we do. We haven't demonstrated it to date and I'm afraid we're not going to demonstrate it in the future...
...Association convention last week in San Francisco, Dr. James E. Teele, assistant professor of sociology at the Harvard School of Public Health, doubted that these agencies actually discriminate against Negro and urban-dwelling women. The seeming inequity has arisen because of prevailing misconceptions of welfare agencies held by the lower class, he said...
...advocated that Massachusetts should inaugurate a state-coordinated program of medical and social care for unwed mothers in order to help welfare agencies "reach out" to the presently neglected lower classes. Because of insufficient use of the now-existing state Social Service Exchange, which serves as a clearing house for the different social service agencies, many women never get the help they really need, he said...
Teele recognized that it is difficult to get lower class families in need of help to use all the services available to them. Yet it is this group which has the greatest need of welfare services, and which suffers the most from being deprived of the use of these agencies, he said...