Word: lows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current controversy over painters' helpers has starkly outlined one of the major problems facing Harvard as a large-scale employer: How can it move blacks and members of other minority groups up from their traditional, low-level jobs, to the higher-paying jobs held almost exclusively by whites in the past...
...YORK, Nov 24-The cross country season ended on a low note today for Harvard, as the Crimson finished 29th in a field of 30 in the NCAA championships at Van Cortlandt Park...
...industrial relations, Johnson, 47, has earned rare trust during his three years as president. Even his severest critics respect him deeply. Says Linguist Noam Chomsky, the fervent antiwar leader: "He's an honest, honorable man." One reason Johnson inspires confidence is that he combines high energy with a low-key manner. "He's open-minded, unflappable, and doesn't get hooked on a single idea," says Provost Jerome Wiesner. Johnson, for example, laid down no rigid contingency plans for the demonstrations. His guiding principle, he says, was to stay flexible and avoid painting the administration into...
...admirals also suspect that they have been victimized by the practice of "buy-in," long familiar to the aircraft and electronics industries. A company "buying in" enters a low bid to get a military contract, then submits enough overrun claims later to turn a handsome profit. The Navy, too, is guilty of a form of buyin. It submits to Congress fairly low requests for funds, then returns for more to pay for overruns...
...higher the price, the greater the doubts among investors as to the worth of currencies. Since, last month's upward revaluation of the West German mark, gold has dropped abruptly. From an early October level of $41.20 an oz., the price in London sank last week to as low as $37.75 an oz. The price break was the sharpest since private gold trading was freed from the $35-an-oz. official price of the metal in March...