Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race, but after a court order requiring greater efforts to accomplish integration, HEW threatened to withdraw $89 million in federal funds if the school did not increase the enrollment of blacks, who constituted 6% of the students on the main campus. The university argued that the figure was so low because blacks could not meet the school's entrance standards as well as whites. When HEW demanded that the number of new black students be increased to 15%, the university balked. A compromise was finally worked out last month that called the higher figure a "goal" to be worked toward...
...low-income families in particular, the programs of HEW and its complementary state agencies help make life normal, if not exactly comfortable. The Palmers are a hypothetical, but typical low-income family in an urban setting that is receiving its legal share of HEW's substantial offerings. Paul Palmer, 45, and his wife, Jane, 40, live in Boston with their four children. In addition, Jane's mother and Paul's father are part of the family...
...Experts have since declared Thassos oil deposits to be of low quality and hardly worth exploiting...
...gangs in the hallways. I was appalled." He instituted a shape-up-or-ship-out policy that public schools cannot follow. Students are fined or assigned mandatory chores if they are tardy or cut class; vandalism, drug use and academic failure are grounds for expulsion. Students may come with low reading skills, but they must read at twelfth-grade level to graduate. Adams himself sometimes accosts students as they go home: "If you're not on the honor roll, you can't afford to walk out of school without any books...
...slaughter. During 1975, 1976 and 1977, slumping meat prices encouraged ranchers to cut the size of their herds, lest they become stuck with steers that could only be sold at a loss come market time. By this year, the nation's cattle stock had dropped to a seven-year low of 116 million head, and the scarcity began to force prices...