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Word: lthough (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lthough defaulting students from the best-known schools have re-eived the most publicity, 60% of the offenders attended vocational institutions. Some of these were schools in name only. They sprang up overnight and advertised for students with bounteous promises of good jobs. A Federal Trade Commission investigation found that many of these schools were guilty of misleading advertising, deceptive salesmanship and substandard instruction. For example, an airline personnel training school in Kansas City, Mo., that received federal money enrolled 15,000 students, graduated 2,000, and found jobs for only 102. Even after this disclosure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beneficent Monster | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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