Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most officials suspect, the government is flexible, allowing schools to raise fees by more than the accepted federal price standard, tuition is sure to take another big jump...
Your thoughtless use of South Africa as an emotional catchword belittles the suffering of that nation's people, and does not suggest a high standard of intellectual honesty at The Crimson. Andy Fruchter...
Generally, the Administration has won the reluctant cooperation of business. Last week General Motors and AT&T announced that they would comply with the guidelines. Increases in steel prices and railroad rates have been held within the basic standard, which calls for companies to limit price rises over the next year to half a percentage point below their average annual rises in 1976-77. Still higher increases may be made by companies with special problems, like rapidly rising raw material costs, so long as their pretax profit margins do not go above the average for the best...
...most successful major league manager of the decade, led his team to four pennants and two World Series victories (1975 and 1976). But for the past two seasons the Reds have finished behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West. "We are determined to set a higher standard," said Reds President Dick Wagner in explanation of the firing. Translation: second place just isn't good enough. "You could've knocked me down with a feather when I found out," said Anderson. No translation needed...
...Scrooges, it tends to confuse many perfectly healthy people about their own emotional condition. Even casual observation confirms that many weave through the holidays feeling vaguely like victims-acutely aware of the supposedly malignant pressures that the diagnosticians always talk about. No mystery here. With a consciousness razed by standard holiday pathology, even an intelligent adult may tend to construe the pressure as a symptom of something bad and imminent. In fact, that pressure is primarily only the moving power of a vast communal celebration. This coercive atmosphere is not just an incidental effect of the season, as some suggest...