Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sewage that their mines and factories spewed into the state's rivers. He turned a deaf ear to pleas for accustomed favors. Snapped Duff: "If these birds think that the general run of people are interested in watching them make the rich richer and the poor poorer, they're crazy...
...Knock Them Down." For youngsters between 14 and 24, the fun gets more intense. A million of them belong to the FDJ proper. High-school students who want to graduate or attend universities have little chance if they do not join the FDJ. Poorer children, who must go to work early, find it hard to get jobs without the FDJ membership card. The FDJ is in charge of all sports in the Soviet zone; grey heads have to ask FDJ adolescents for fishing and hunting licenses...
This is not to neglect the potentialities of aid through the states; many states are simply too poor to support high-standard colleges and universities. Along with Federal help to states for secondary school systems there should be a propping of the poorer states' efforts for higher education. In this way many a four-year college could be improved and, perhaps more important, junior colleges could be established. As suggested by President Conant, two year junior colleges-staffed by qualified teachers-would serve both as centers of adult education and as means of answering the demand of those who either...
...sampled students, the grades of habitual viewers were lower than before television came to the area. These figures applied to those who watched TV for more than 25 hours a week. Only 14 percent of students who squinted at sets for under 10 hours a week had poorer marks. And in a comparison between two test groups of equal I.Q.'s--one of which had TV sets at home and one which did not--it was discovered that the latter averaged 19 percent better in grades than did the group exposed to living room TV. Further proof...
...should I pay a lot in and get nothing back?" They drop out. Blue Cross turnover has ranged as high as 25% a year. Those who dropped out were, naturally, the healthiest-from an insurance point of view, "the best risks." Those who came in were likely to be poorer risks...