Word: pay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last the World Bank has gotten around to enacting Senator Mike Monroney's excellent proposal for an International Development Association. The new agency will supplement World Bank activities with easier, "softer" loans to underdeveloped nations. Recipients will be able to pay their debts to the IDA in their own local currencies, and they will later receive a second economic boost when this money is used by the agency to buy local products...
...school year the English Department offered 35 hours of lectures in English and 22 hours in speech. Groups attending the lectures varied in size from 100 to 450. The problems encountered were that some pupils, lost in the anonymity of a large group, were tempted to pay little attention and the others had gotten the impression that the lectures would be only a simple reveiw and thus came to class with a lazy attitude. To check these problems note taking was required of all students and tests were administered...
...year 1958-1959, the Society guaranteed refunds of at least ten per cent on cash purchases and eight per cent on charge purchases, and on May 27, the stockholders voted to pay refunds at the same rate...
Another three weeks of bickering, and the salary problem was solved. Although the state House voted to raise pay for teachers only, the Senate tossed aside all pretenses of economy and priority, giving faculty members hikes of $430 to $1,261, and an across-the-board raise of $360 to all state employees. Political compromise may have caused smiles on Beacon Hill, but the entire maneuvering cost the state one of its finest educators and administrators. Some senators resented Mather's resignation for the political sympathy it aroused and they misinterpreted his motives; one senator accused him of "trying...
...rapidly growing population, regardless of the level of total productivity, there will always be a greater relative proportion of middle and lower income class people who have children deserving of a higher education but unable to pay the price of the private institution. . . . As the college-age population pressures generated after 1940 come upon all higher education in the next ten years, it is possible the private institutions should devote less of their energies to the problem of providing financial aid to needy students and gird up their internal programs against rising inflationary costs. Public institutions, by means...