Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changes were about double the normally expected springtime improvements. They reflected a sizable dent in the idle-worker problem that has been the only major bad spot in the nation's recession recovery...
Stressing the "over-all success" of the House System, the report recommended several revisions in existing procedure. It called for "a systematic attack" on the problem of informal student-faculty contact...
Brown's program bears inspection by other universities; there, veteran schoolteachers receive fellowships for one-year refresher courses in their subjects, are replaced in their classrooms by graduate interns. The University of Wisconsin will tackle the problem at the core of the merit-pay controversy-how to decide which teachers are most effective. At Duke, graduates of 25 cooperating liberal-arts colleges will study toward master of arts in teaching degrees. Outstanding teachers from local schools will be released from other duties to supervise M.A.T. interns...
...other hand, Romney will have a problem with some of his dealers. Some 30% of them are auto bigamists; they sell a Big Three car as well as the Rambler, will probably carry the Big Three's line of small cars (though only Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth dealers, of which Rambler has practically none, are expected to). Romney hopes that his hard core of 2,800 dealers will stick with Rambler. During the industry's 1958 slump, Rambler saved many of them; last year they made a 2.8% profit on their total sales v. .2% for the average...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Latest refinement on Louisa May Alcott: a problem drama about the little women in a big-city home for young unwed mothers...