Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...double life as a school teacher and an attorney. He is advocating better teachers, better schools, and better public relations for the school system, which, he claims, has suffered bad publicity from the school appointments fight and from inaccurate charges that the teaching is of a low grade. Gargiulo, however, declines to take a position on the school appointments issue--the hottest in the campaign...
...main reason for putting Vanguard into a separate, low-priority compartment was that the Pentagon wanted to keep the satellite project from interfering with the U.S.'s top-priority program of military ballistic-missile research. For eight lost years after World War II, the U.S. had spent an average of less than $1,000,000 a year on long-range ballistic-missile projects. The Eisenhower Administration decided in 1954 to push ballistic-missile development, after the physicists decided that they could make a hydrogen warhead light enough to be carried in the nose of a missile. The Russians, well...
...competing imports into the country. As a starter, he ordered his ministry to prepare schemes to slash rail freights on foreign oil and U.S. coal. At week's end the coalmen were still holding their prices up, and Erhard was stubbornly getting ready to fire the gun of low-priced imports that always in the past has knocked them down. Nobody was betting that it would not do it again...
Whitlock added that there had been a steady decline in the number of voluntary commuters in the past three years because "people in the low income brackets simply aren't applying, and more students want to get the benefits of 'living in.' But I do not think that we are solving the problem by forcing those students to live out who want to live in and by keeping in the Houses those who want to live...
...this sort of hot water before, particularly with England, and can probably extricate itself without permanently alienating the parties in the dispute. But France has come to see Algeria as the last stand of French power--power which has been disintegrating steadily since the war and which reached a low, but heroic ebb at Dien-Bien...