Word: marginalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Work like this is useful, but de- liberately "marginal" in importance so that it probably would not get done without volunteer help. It is the kind of work that people without special training can do.
Critics charge that the department's impersonality is reinforced by its own pecking order. Since the front-line patrol-car force has the lowest status, it tends to consist of men who have failed promotion or who have been demoted. Rookies learn that the way out of the car...
Though earnings are still "marginal," the entire Air-Shuttle operation brought in $41 million carrying 2,800,000 passengers last year, which alone would rank it the ninth biggest U.S. airline.
Differing Forecasts. Despite these problems, Indira Gandhi expects the Congress Party to suffer only marginal losses, if any, at the polls. She is also confident that no one will be able to elbow her out of the prime ministry after the elections. But other Indians are less sanguine. Most forecasts...
One comparison will suffice. The introduction of universal, compulsory education in the 19th century gradually transformed American society. This was the great change. Present efforts to add a few years of schooling at one end or another, to extend the curriculum and improve facilities, while useful and important, cannot possibly...