Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion manpower-training program, up $450 million from last year, designed principally to "get to those who are last in line-the hard-core unemployed-the hardest to reach." To do so, Johnson emphasized "a new partnership between Government and private industry," with Washington supplying the funds and business generating the jobs for 250,000 of the hard-core jobless in the first year...
...prevent companies from making contributions by buying advertisements for political fund-raising functions. Already, 30 corporations have placed enough bulk orders for the $12.50 volume, which has no advertisements, to cover the party's $100,000 initial investment. State Chairman Monks predicts that with luck profits could reach $550,000. "If it's successful," says an envious Democratic Party staffer, "we'll be doing...
...cost of lawyers' fees and overhead that it takes an estimated $2.20 in premiums and taxes to get $1 to an accident victim. (Blue Cross delivers $1 in benefits for $1.07.) Nor is inefficiency the only drawback of the ponderous system. Although only 5% of auto cases ever reach trial, they still pre-empt about 65% of the nation's civil-court calendars. It now takes 2½ years to get a civil case tried in most cities...
...York pitch with a press conference, at which devotional attention was paid to the $3 price of admission to the Garden. What if a spiritual devotee has no scratch? "I'm quite sure," meditated the Yogi, "that in New York, $3 will not be beyond the reach...
...course the central fact of being a student is going to school. But so far, the government has not been able to reach advanced students there to give them any great feeling of nationality. A desparate teacher shortage has kept French instructors in control of nearly all the secondary schools, and much of the say over what is going to be taught still comes from Paris. The lycees teach more Cartesian logic than Ivoirian problems, dispensing much that means little to life so far from France...