Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week. The President in rapid succession will deliver a State of the Union speech focused on economics, send an economics message to Congress, detail his tax-cut program and put the finishing touches on the federal budget for fiscal 1979. Both liberal and conservative economists agree that the main weakness in the President's program so far is his failure to develop an effective anti-inflation policy. As if to underscore the point, the Government reported that wholesale prices of finished goods climbed .7% in December, equal to an annual rate of 8.7%. That was nearly double...
...morning at Morris High School, a gothic fortress rising above the ruins of New York City's scarred South Bronx. All but the main entrance is sealed; in front of it is a security guard, ready to turn back anybody who tries to enter without proper identification. Inside, five more guards equipped with walkie-talkies patrol the halls and cafeteria in the 60% Hispanic, 39% black school. Most classroom doors are locked after classes begin, and study halls, once a favorite spot for fights, have been shut down. The dingy lockers that formerly lined the corridors have been removed...
Jewett likes to speak well of this program. When asked where the main thrust of Harvard's minority recruitment effort lies, he responds that, "While the main impetus for recruitment has got to come from staff, students--certainly in the areas they focus on--would probably be at least equal in terms of what they produce...
...Mahlon Hoagland, director of the Institute of Medicine at Worcester, Massachusetts and organizer of the effort, outlined the group's main requests yesterday...
Last week leading flu experts met in Geneva at the World Health Organization. Their main concern was to help develop a vaccine against the reborn strain of flu now ravaging the Soviet Union. Though cases have been reported in China, Finland and Czechoslovakia, A/USSR or Russian flu is still only a threat to the rest of the world. The flu now sweeping 41 states is mostly another new variant called A/Texas...