Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estimates that 13,500 more regular teachers are needed. Last fall the New York State education department issued a 710-page report that complimented the city school system for having "moved mountains," and then proceeded on almost every page to rip it apart with criticisms of "heavy teaching loads, meager instructional materials, and limited or inept supervision...
...COUNTRIES. In The Netherlands, the weather hurt the corn crop and stunted Dutch bulbs, draining them of their brilliant hues. In Belgium, the flax crop is bad, and the wheat harvest in some places is one-fourth its normal size. But of greater concern to the Belgians than the meager harvest or the tempestuous weather was a new law that goes into effect this week, creating a formal language barrier across the land. Dutch will be the official tongue in the Flemish north, French in the Walloon-dominated south, with pockets of both peoples stranded on the wrong side. Months...
...requirement age to 35. Still, at accounting time last week, it seemed that Poor Richard's advice that "he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing" was being followed. Only $288,720 of Boston's $1,700,000 was currently on loan, while Philadelphia's meager capital of $330,835 had only...
...them. Over the past ten years, with overall employment steadily expanding, jobs for those without high school education have declined by 25%. Of the nation's 4,322,000 unemployed, about two-thirds are people who failed to complete high school. Many of them lack even the meager education required to pass qualifying tests for Government retraining programs. Among teen-agers out of school, the unemployment rate...
...really expect the film to be great drama. Nor did I anticipate an inventive cinemagraphic effort, whose form would transcend the rather meager contents. The most I hoped for was a little excitement--bombs and air raids and daring rescues and all that stuff--to enliven a dreary Cambridge afternoon. But even that modest wish remained unfulfilled...