Word: nonprofits
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...based on about 40 short reading samples. The freshmen did pretty well: 60% were sharp (or acute) enough to get a score of 26 or better on the vocabulary test. Fifty years later, the man who devised the 1928 Minnesota test, Alvin C. Eurich, 77, now president of the nonprofit Academy for Educational Development, decided to give the very same exam to modern Minnesota freshmen. The results, announced last week: the 1978 students did worse than their counterparts of 1928. Only half scored at least 26 on the vocabulary portion of the exam. Worse, only 19% scored above...
...Concho chugged into the harbor of Chelsea, Mass., late last month carrying 8.4 million gallons of heating oil. An everyday occurrence, with one important exception: the fuel on board cost only 47? per gal., or about two-thirds the normal 75?-per-gal. wholesale price. The importer was the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. (CEC), headed by Joseph P. Kennedy II, 27, eldest son of late Senator Robert Kennedy. A vociferous critic of the energy firms' "greed," the young Kennedy was out to prove that oil companies were ripping off the public...
When a railroad worker retires, the company traditionally gives him a gold watch. When Educational Statesman Clark Kerr retires later this month at 68, his nonprofit firm, the 15-member Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, will mark the occasion in its own special style, by issuing a 155-page report on a weighty and favorite theme: the equivocal prospects of U.S. higher education...
Some critics object to the counting of illegal aliens on the grounds that this gives an unfair advantage to states where they are most abundant: California, New York, Florida, Texas. Last month the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a nonprofit organization working to end illegal immigration, filed a lawsuit charging that including illegal aliens in the census violates the U.S. Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision...