Word: lowest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reclassification for these students might mean the draft. But a New Haven draft board clerk said that the Selective Service regulation ordering classification in the lowest possible priority (highest number) would probably lead to a IV-D classification despite the students' requests...
...state-owned railroads are losing $1,000,000 a day. To pay its bills and meet its huge deficits, the government is constantly printing more money and, in turn, inflating an already bloated cost of living-now rising by 28% a year. Only the second lowest population growth rate in Latin America (1.6%) and one of the highest abortion rates (one in three pregnancies) keep the economy from complete collapse...
...Second Lowest. Impregilo and its partners had actually submitted the second lowest bid to build what will eventually be the largest earthen dam in history. Lower by $75 million was another consortium of companies in Germany and Switzerland headed by the German construction company Hochtief. But when the Germans and Swiss reviewed their figures, they asked to be allowed to raise the original bid by $50 million. Pakistani officials demurred. They gave the job instead to Impregilo, which has already gained impressive dam-building experience from projects in the Middle East and Africa...
Even those graduate students within the special fields have no assurance of being accepted to Army ROTC. Designed as a program for undergraduates, the course gives lowest priority to graduate students in all cases...
...over December and almost 6% over January 1967. Housing starts were up 16.3% in January, the sixth increase in seven months. Total personal income inched up to an alltime record, a seasonally adjusted annual level of $651.2 billion. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, fell to 3.5% in January, its lowest level in 14 years. Equally buoyant are the latest corporate-earnings reports. Surveying 581 companies, the Wall Street Journal found that their total profits during 1967's fourth quarter had increased 5.2% over a year earlier...