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...public schools. But the number of machines available to each school varies widely. A survey by Market Data Retrieval Inc. found that 80% of the country's 2,000 largest and richest public high schools now have at least one micro, while 60% of the 2,000 poorest schools have none. Says Market Data President Herbert Lobsenz: "If computers are the wave of the future, a lot of America is being washed...
Three months after Kuprevich began as director of Brown's force, he gave Black the poorest evaluation he has received since coming to the school, the attorney said...
...about was survival in the face of the common Soviet threat. On this last trip, by contrast, the present leaders wanted to talk about their econo my and what the U.S., the richest nation in the world, can do to help China, the most populous and one of the poorest...
...broader context, Mississippi's black population of 37% is the highest for any state. Mississippi is also, of course, the poorest state; its poverty exacerbates every issue. Alone in America, it has no state-supported system of kindergartens, and earlier this year the legislature defeated Governor Winter's kindergarten bill, which would mainly have benefited poor black children. Conversely, the congressional race this fall in the Second District, which mostly comprises the Delta, strikes into the very core of everything Mississippi and the South could become. A black man, Robert Clark, an influential legislator, won the Democratic nomination...
Jean-Clause "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Haiti's 30-year-old President for Life rules the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Unemployment and illiteracy have both been estimated at 30 percent of the population. In the capital city, Port as Prince, the average annual income is $275 a year, in the rural areas the figure falls below $135 a year. The infant mortality rate is 30 percent, and the average Haitian life span is 52 years. Amidst this squalor, Duvalier spent more than $1 million on his 1980 marriage ceremony...