Word: parallels
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...nation as a whole, the economy has once again achieved a state of general prosperity. The national unemployment rate has been at 4% or less every month this year and unemployment is very likely to fall further in the coming months. Negro unemployment rates continue to move parallel to the national rates, but at twice the level. While national unemployment fell from 6.7 percent in 1961 to 3.8 percent in the first five months of this year, the Negro unemployment rate fell from 12.5 percent to 7.2 percent...
...unemployment rates of particular categories of Negro workers also moved parellel to the corresponding categories of all workers. The unemployment rate for adult Negro men fell from 11.7 percent to less than 5 percent, paralleling the national decline of 5.7 percent to 2.5 percent. Only the rate for teenagers does not parallel the white experience. It hardly fell in the five year interval and remains close to 25 percent. The white teenage rate did fall somewhat, but still remains high, abou t12 percent. The reason for these dispartities has not yet been fully identified. The great increase in numbers...
Each Council would be responsible for planning an integrated course for a student within the time allotted to the Council. The Council would be encouraged to set up alternative parallel courses where important difference in background and aptitude exist...
...recognized that some core curriculum should provide the common information in the biological, behavioral and clinical sciences expected of all Doctors of Medicine. Because of differences in aptitudes and in training prior to medical school, parallel pathways may be required through part of this core curriculum. It is thought that this core could be taught by coordinated inter-departmental teaching which would serve to arouse the students' interest and excitement in the many fascinating areas of Medicine. It would not be aimed at didactic coverage of everything. Topics of great interest and pertinence may rather be emphasized with the thinking...
There are many ways in which the integrated core curriculum may be combined with the departmental elective courses. The two kinds of teaching may run a parallel course throughout each academic year, e.g., core curriculum in mornings and electives distributed over afternoons. The core could be included within the first two or three years and the last one to one and a half years could be reserved entirely for elective courses. The core could be taught in blocks reserved for electives. One example of this last arrangement, which has the attractive feature that electives in all years are taught...