Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members out of class despite the coaxing of top school officials. As teacher and student absenteeism grew, Mayor John Lindsay and the school board came up with a $135 million package of pay and benefits spread over 26 months, an $11.9 million increase over their original offer. It will mean at least $1,200 more for some 55,000 teachers. In frantic bargaining, the union won an extra weekly hour of classroom preparation time for teachers in ghetto elementary schools, but allowed its demand for more power over disruptive students to be turned over to a study committee. At week...
...these cases represent only a fraction of 1% of the world's leukemia toll (the U.S. annually records about 18,000 new leukemia cases-about 3,000 children), and virtually all got intensive treatment in one of the few medical centers specializing in leukemia. But this does not mean that such care is limited to children living close to those centers. Dr. Zubrod urged his physician listeners to refer patients with suspected leukemia to the centers where, if the diagnosis is confirmed, they can be treated by a team of experts until the leukemic cell count has dropped below...
...Suzman also discounts the posibility of violent overthrow from within. The security laws are so strict that they make the organization of an African uprising impossible. This discouraging analysis, however, does not mean that Mrs. Suzman forecasts no change for the future. Instead she predicts that while it may take a great deal of time, a certain amount of integration will be forced on the Afrikaners by economic necessity. When the Africans start moving into lower level professional jobs, it is her hope that there will be some political concessions as well...
...this doesn't mean that the two groups are mutually exclusive. In fact, hippies thrive best at a University in which the activists have a maximum of power; while activists seem to be most effective at a university which has a large hippy population. Each group helps the other--the hippies provide the life style and atmosphere while the activists bring about the changes which allow their wigged-out brethren to survive...
When a second string nearly outplays a first string, it is hard to say whether that bodes ill or good. It could mean that some established members of the team should not be starters, or maybe that they won't be starters for much longer...