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...from 45 to 65 out of the total of 201). Nearly 80% of the city's black children go there. One reason is that the law failed to declare all-white schools "unbalanced" and thus did not force them to take in blacks; it also permitted parents to opt out of busing plans. Another reason is a complicated system of "middle schools" and "junior schools" that are supposed to feed children into the high schools. There are only four middle schools, all in the inner city, and only a few high schools are geared to take their students...
...children would already be at least adolescents, thus sparing the nation bulletins from a maternity hospital ("The President and baby are doing well") and jokes about the latest White House formula or diaper pins. It might well be that a cigar-smoking, oddsmaking computer would opt for a widow as the ideal candidate, since that would remove the husband question yet endow her with a patina of nonthreatening domestic respectability. Throw in a couple of grown children, the computer might add, and let the word out that she loves to cook-on occasion...
...first you feel like Henry Adams-between one world that's dead and another that's powerless to be born. But there's also an exhilarating feeling of being on the brink of a new adventure." Some experimental groups disperse because their members opt for marriage or careers as secular single women. Despite the attrition, there are now at least 50 noncanonical nuns' groups, ranging in membership from three to nearly...
...hold markets. A trade specialist of the Union Bank of Switzerland, however, estimates that "even with the surcharge removed, Swiss watches will be 15% more expensive in America." Certainly not all U.S. consumers will switch to American-made products. Fanciers of Scotch whisky, for instance, are unlikely to opt for bourbon or rye, no matter what happens to the price. Still, higher prices for imports should create more sales and job opportunities in the U.S. industries that compete against them-notably in autos, steel and textiles...
Driving the 1,340 miles of Highway 95 from New York to Florida is at best a tiresome two-night, nine-meal trek. It costs about $150 for a group of four. But thousands of vacationers continue to make the grim odyssey rather than opt for relatively cheap air flights, for the simple reason that a Florida holiday virtually demands an automobile, and rentals there during peak seasons are prohibitive...