Word: poorest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even the poorest readers ... should read at least at the sixth grade level," Conant says. Amplifying this point. Conant notes that he has "been at schools in which from 35 to 50 per cent of the ninth graders were reading at sixth grade level or below...
...interests in Press Products Inc. and the Bonan Corp., both Chrysler suppliers. The rattles show no sign of going away. Company auditors were investigating just about everyone in Chrysler's top echelon in search of financial links to Chrysler's suppliers. Irate stockholders, spurred on by the poorest first-half earnings of the big three automakers, threatened to sue the company. Tipsters-often ex-employees with imaginary gripes against Chrysler-flooded the front office with charges against dozens of executives. Moaned one Chrysler official: "The jackals are after...
...David Susskind, moderator of his own 10 p.,m.-to-sometime chitchat program (Open End), beamed out in the New York City area, was asked which of three presidential candidates on his recent shows came on as the strongest interviewee. Liberal Democrat Susskind gave Liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller the poorest marks: "He evaded and dodged every effort to get him to substantiate what he had said in public only a few days earlier." Another disheartening performer was Democrat Adlai Stevenson: "I approached him with something like idolatry, which I fear came through on the show. But I was disappointed...
...Clear Need." What about the poorest states? "The clear and present need," says the report, "is for federal financial assistance to the states that have extremely low personal incomes relative to the number of schoolchildren." In 1957-58, for example, eleven mainly Southern states with 22% of U.S. public school pupils spent less for education than 80% of the national average. To climb even to this level would have required a stiff (and "unlikely") spending boost, from 13% in Maine to 63% in Mississippi...
...them, bound, criticized, and read by people who don't understand them, and now even written by people who don't understand them." A look at the current bestseller list (see p. 84) gives Lichtenberg the air of a prophet. The fiction crop is one of the poorest in years. Items...