Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regatta, held at the Charles River Basin in a 15 to 20 knot wind, was raced as a team event, in which only two teams are on the water at the same time. Each team has three boats, with the winning team determined by the lower sum of the teams' finishing positions. Harvard finished with the low total in each of its five races...
...really too early to tell how the squad will come out this year," said Coach Cooney Wolland. "We still need more strength in the lower part of the lineup...
Peace Corps officials, however disagree. They are confident they can select out the "deadbeats" from a larger flow of volunteers. Neither would the volunteer spirit nor the quality of the applicants suffer. Draftees would still have to elect the Peace Corps over the army: the pay would be lower, the work harder, and the standards--with an increase in applicants--could be raised considerably. Moreover, the highly qualified body of college students, who now shun the Peace Corps for the greater security of graduate school, could now volunteer without fear of further obligation when they return to school...
...there are quite a few indications that the trading-stamp industry is running into difficulties. Last year 500 grocery stores of various sizes dropped stamps, promised lower prices instead. Last week Sperry & Hutchinson Co., whose Green Stamps account for one third of the industry's business, issued a prospectus required before it can sell 1,000,000 shares of stock and seek eventual representation on the New York Stock Exchange. Opening its books for the first time in 70 years, S & H President William S. Beinecke reported that its sales-$330 million last year-are higher than ever...
Pressing Problems. Amid all this prosperity and progress, the textile makers do have their troubles. Imports have almost quadrupled in the last decade, as foreign producers, with lower wage costs, have undercut American prices in cotton, wool, and synthetic fabrics. To keep their own wage costs down, U.S. textile firms have built nearly all their new plants in the Southeast and have vigorously opposed union attempts to organize them. Only a couple of weeks ago, the National Labor Relations Board, in an unusually strong order, ruled J. P. Stevens guilty of "flagrant" violation of federal labor laws, accused the firm...