Word: poorer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would be too radical for most U.S. citizens. He has proposed: 1) nationalization of heavy industry, mines, forests, utilities, banks and transportation; 2) redistribution among small farmers of large estates and confiscated Japanese lands; 3) a planned economy; 4) a soak-the-rich tax program with total exemptions for poorer classes...
...other spokesmen for low-income groups protested loudly that this "free" system (in preponderant effect at present) results in overcharging and under-service. Farm spokesmen pointed out that many rural areas have few doctors or none. Only the richest parts of the country have enough medical services. The poorer parts, whose health affects the health and strength of the nation, are shunned by doctors as feeless medical wastelands. The only solution to the problem, cried labor, is national health insurance, financed and administered, when necessary, by the Government...
...several of the poorer items in this sixth issue of "Wake" were not so blatantly characteristic of a certain persistent type of writing, I would by-pass them entirely in favor of the better pieces, which comprise the bulk of the magazine. But when creations such as Austryn Wainhouse's "Selection: The Peripateties," typical of that irritating sort of writing that requires the reader to approach it as if it were a puzzle, continue to appear in magazine after magazine, there is good reason to offer a hesitant objection. I say hesitant, because baffled as surely...
Like all theories, Gallup's has its obvious limits. No poll is any better than its interviewers. Though the polltakers' instructions carefully specify the cross-section to be taken, some Gallup pollsters are reluctant to venture into poorer districts; others fill out their ballots by punching doorbells in the daytime, thus missing jobholders...
Nothing in this letter or in the action of the Committee should be interpreted as reflecting in any way on the Band. The Band is an admirable organization, the best of its kind, and the College would be a poorer place without it. It has given pleasure to thousands of Harvard students and alumni and deserves their generous support. I hope and believe that ways can be found for getting more money for the Band and that it will receive the support it has so richly earned. W. J. Bender Dean of the College