Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ubiquitous sign of the times. Last year, U.S. builders put up just under eight houses and apartments for every 1,000 people, which was half of 1950's record pace. The U.S., once preeminent, now lags behind Western Europe, Japan and Russia in housing output on a per capita basis. This week the Nixon Administration will announce formation of the National Corporation for Housing Partnerships, a Comsat-style combination of Government and private industry. The corporation expects that its activities will add at least 10,000 new houses and apartments a year in the 1970s for families earning...
...small businesses; this will give Stern the chance to study a variety of businesses. He has other reasons for preferring a small company: "I once had an offer from General Motors, but my idol is Ralph Nader." He adds: "I think that there is more to life than earnings per share...
...study by the Zurich company showed that women are less costly to insure than men. While the women have more accidents per mile, their smashups are less serious and 20% less costly to settle. Women tend to clobber fence posts and rear bumpers; men often hit other cars head-on and at higher speeds. A separate survey by the World Health Organization made similar findings. Says Robert Pansard, a French safety official who participated in the WHO study: "Although women are perhaps more emotional, they do not possess the drive for power which often becomes aggressiveness in male drivers." They...
...results of a University-wide referendum on reviving the student strike showed that 3222 student--about 74 per cent of the total vote--voted against a strike, while 945 voted for a resumed strike...
Figures from the Admissions Office showed that the April crisis had not cut the number of students deciding to come to Harvard. About 85 per cent of the students accepted for the class of '73 said they planned to enroll. The acceptance figure for the class of '72 had been about the same. But Radcliffe reported an 8-10 per cent decline in the number of girls accepting places for the Radcliffe class of '73. 'Cliffe administrators blamed the drop on competition from newly-coeducational Yale...