Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accept, the President's advisers are employing a loyalty test as one means of deciding which candidates to aid. The results have been compiled in a large black notebook, with computer print-outs that detail the voting record of each Senate and House member. While those with poor records of support for Carter's programs are not ruled out of his campaign plans, they are assigned a low priority...
...rose from a $90-per-week bank teller to millionaire bank president, Bert Lance never forgot his friends−or his poor relations. Between 1963 and 1974, while he was president of the First National Bank in Calhoun, Ga. (pop. 6,000), he arranged five loans totaling about $140,000 for his unemployed mother-in-law, Ruth M. Chance. When the interest payments were due, Lance sometimes wrote checks on her overdrawn Calhoun account to make the payments. He also arranged loans, and made similar repayments, for three brothers-in-law: a total of $57,982 to retired Naval Officer...
These builders blame the overruns on poor planning by the admirals. Repeated changes in specifications, for instance, have been made after a contract has been negotiated and even while the ship was being built. According to Electric Boat, this plan-as-you-build technique caused at least 40,000 alterations in the design of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine. Most of these changes created a ripple effect, because shifting the location of one piece of equipment usually meant modifying dozens of other parts of the ship...
...latest crusade for promotion to Level Two is being made this spring by the Harvard women's softball team. Women's softball, which suffered from poor coaching and spring fever to produce somewhat of a diamond horror show in its first season last year, has been considerably resurrected this time around by the efforts of concerned players and first-year coach Brad Elmblad...
...rising costs of tuition here are rapidly making this university an unthinkable investment for many poor and even middle class families, thus effectively restricting access to the children of the well-to-do. As Caroline Bird has argued in The Case Against College, more and more families are questioning the worth of a private college education, in light of the ever-rising tuition costs, in this Age of Inflation...