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...Help businesses-which would get one-fourth of the total tax reduction -by lowering the maximum levy on corporate profits from...
Aside from the threat of violence, Boston school officials are concerned about how many white students will actually attend public schools this year. Last year almost one-fourth of the enrolled students, virtually all of them white, stayed out the entire year...
...last week of Terry Herndon, executive director of the National Education Association (see box page 51). Indeed by week's end hundreds of thousands of the nation's public school teachers were on the picket lines. The militant American Federation of Teachers estimated that as many as one-fourth of its 440,000 members could be on strike this month. The larger (1.7 million members) N.E.A. predicted that there could be from 150 to 200 strikes this fall−compared with 106 last year...
Since the Nazi Holocaust, which wiped out one-third of the world's Jews, "Jewish survival" has been a slogan that encompasses a number of issues. Besides support for Israel and Soviet Jewry, the concept includes attempts to counteract losses through secularization and intermarriage of Jews with Gentiles. Another, and some say the greatest threat to Jewish survival is being increasingly talked about: the trend among modern Jews to have small families. In the U.S., for example, enrollment in synagogue classes and day schools has declined by roughly one-fourth since 1965, owing largely to the falling Jewish birth...
...clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland's 47-year-long life and is only about one-fourth as egregious as Anne Edwards' Judy Garland (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Author Edwards, an English film scenarist, belongs to the Ptolemaic school of cinema biography. In this genre, all global events are subordinated to the subject: "Frances Ethel Gumm, the future Judy Garland, was born on June 10, 1922, about...