Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...per man-on-the-job, the cost is relatively low. Job Corps trainees cost the Government an average of more than $7,000 per man, and the dropout rate is higher. One NAB official predicts that the average JOBS trainee in his region will pay the Government's investment back in as few as 20 months through his own taxes and his absence from welfare rolls...
With Tarkenton and Jones sparking an offense that has averaged 25 points per game, and a rapidly maturing defense that is beginning to resemble the fearsome, head-butting New York squads of the late '50s, the Giants are on their way to their first winning season in five years. They left Dallas with a record of six victories and three loss es, trailing the Cowboys by only one game in the race for the N.F.L.'s Capitol Division title. And they have one more date with the Cowboys on Dec. 15. The way the schedule shapes...
...major Asian banking, insurance and warehousing center, Singapore last year moved ahead of London into fourth place among the world's ports. Its gross national product rose by 11% to an estimated $1 billion, making the tiny republic (pop. 2,000,000) the third richest on a per capita basis in Asia, after Japan and Hong Kong. Recently, Singapore applied for full currency convertibility under the rules of the International Monetary Fund. That means that its dollar is healthy enough to be freely exchangeable with other currencies, and that Lee is succeeding in his program for survival by building...
...facts indicate that the Governor is wrong. The basic allowance for women with two children is about $50 per week. This money is meant to cover all of a family's needs. It just isn't enough, and to keep families going at all, an informal system of extra payments has developed. These extra payments are not for luxuries: they are an essential part of a welfare recipient's income. Now the money for these payments is running out--as a direct consequence of the welfare mismanagement and profiteering that was revealed this week. The mothers who demonstrated...
...official in charge of Broadway show and other tickets at the Harvard Club of New York said yesterday that he had received many calls from Harvard and Yale students asking from $25 to $150 per ticket, but few sales were made. "The alumni are rather disgusted about the whole thing. Some of them ordered tickets in August and haven't been refunded their checks," he said. Hundreds of alumni will watch the game over closed-circuit TV in the New York Harvard Club. The official speculated that the tickets being offered in New York came from the team, since they...