Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are problems in paradise. While luxuries are cheap, most necessities are outrageously expensive. Per capita income is only $2,100-about $600 less than on the mainland. Yet, since most staples must be imported, prices average 25% over those Stateside. Electric bills average $45 monthly, eggs cost 99? a dozen, soft drinks average 75? for a large bottle-making the soda as costly as the Scotch. Housing is astronomically high: a fair-sized lot with a modest home can run as high as $75,000. Bad roads are made even more hazardous for tourists by the custom of driving...
...living in the East bloc. The monthly average wage has risen 10% in the past six years, to $158, and there is more to buy on the shelves of the state-owned food and department stores than anyone can remember. Prices for basics are low: bread costs only 12? per loaf, potatoes 2? per lb., a haircut 20?. But anything beyond the basic necessities of life is more expensive in East Germany than anywhere in Western Europe. Coffee is $7.95 per lb., a blouse nearly $10, a TV set $490. Housing rents for $11 to $20 a month...
...from being isolated, the Basque country has boomed into Spain's most dynamic industrial area and one of its most prosperous. San Sebastián (pop. 149,000) is the nation's summer capital and most fashionable resort, boasts the highest per capita spending rate in all of Spain. Bilbao (pop. 357,000) is a throbbing city of steel mills and shipyards, whose skies are darkened by factory smoke by day and glow with the fires of blast furnaces by night. It is also Spain's banking capital, the headquarters of two of Spain's five...
...example, his study seems to explode a cherished Harvard belief that nearly everyone (about 95 per cent) who drops out of the College eventually comes back and graduates. Between 1955 and 1960, 24 per cent of each entering class dropped out at one time or another. What has not been known, he said, is that only 49 per cent of those dropouts graduated. About 12 per cent of each class never made it, he claimed...
...gauges of intelligence produced the same results, however. The higher the prl or the verbal aptitude, the higher was the incidence of dropping out for psychiatric reasons, he found. (About 35 per cent of the dropouts in the sample were diagnosed at UHS as having a specific psychiatric problem...