Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unemployment would be a bill to extend the Federal insurance program beyond its present scope. Both these plans would serve to insure that workers do not drop their consumption activities the minute they are laid off. At the same time that the relief money is preventing the jobless from near-starvation, it would also pump new funds into the economy. These revenues could, of course, be employed to put men and women back on the payrolls from which they had been dismissed...
...time is growing near...
...shell should be able to break seven minutes for the distance, but Coolidge feels that the first boat can do this in the near future. The boat has rowed with its present combination for only a week, as Alberg moved up from the second boat on Monday, with Bruce Konrad switching to the sixth seat...
...much easier to be a mature student than a mature student-leader; and so the student-leaders are faced with the great burden of living up to the Administration's expectations of them and withstanding the many temptations which the near-absence of administrative control invites. It is thus legitimate for the bitter student-leader to feel that he is his own conscience; with fellow students apathetic and administrators fearful lest they become paternalistic, he is given quite a free hand...
...rest of the period was played on fairly even terms. After Tadgh Sweeney sunk a long, tricky bounce shot from near the center of the field, Holy Cross tallied twice and narrowed the Crimson lead...