Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alfred Brousseau, who teaches math at St. Mary's College near San Francisco, became interested in the numbers and their applications. "We got a group of people together in 1963," he says, "and just like a bunch of nuts, we started a mathematics magazine." The Fibonacci Quarterly ($6 per year) has survived and-in an academic sort of way-even thrived. It is currently being sent to the 350 members of the Fibonacci Association and has a general circulation of about...
...parental tolerance, and even beyond. They are caught in a viciously accelerating cycle: as public-school taxes and parochial-school tuition go up, many parents decide that they cannot afford both. They simply transfer their children to the public school, increasing the tax burden as well as the cost per pupil for those remaining in the parochial schools. In addition, some parents switch to public schools because they are not happy with the uneven quality of parochial education...
Uncertain Assistance. Passage of any of these support bills will be made possible largely by a dawning realization among non-Catholics that whatever else Catholic education may be, it is a bargain for society. Parochial schools keep the average per-pupil cost to an estimated national average of $300-less than a half of the $625 it costs to educate a child in public schools. It is no bargain for the taxpayer when a Catholic parent decides that he can no longer afford the $100 or more in yearly tuition that a parochial school may cost. A Catholic-school official...
Lack of Access. The U.S. faces no shortage of timber. National forests alone occupy an area twice the size of California. Because of federal limitations on logging operations and poor forest management techniques, the Government's holdings yield only a quarter as much timber per acre as private timberland. The Agriculture Department has long complained that Congress allows it too little money to manage better, even though the sale of timber to private lumber producers nets the Treasury substantial revenue. A lack of access roads causes as much sawtimber to be lost to storms and insect infestation...
Though New York and their goalie Ed Giacoman, who has given up less than two goals per game during the season, could be the dark horse to foil the oddsmakers, Montreal is the league-leader and, meaningless as first place is, it's still enough to peg them for a first round victory...