Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seriously endanger much of the progress made since 1968 in the numbers of minority students in universities. Test scores of minority applicants from ghetto schools and of lower socio-economic background, cannot be expected to come out as high as those of students from suburban schools and environments which stress educational achievement, especially when the tests continue to have a strong middle-class bias in content and value...
John Donovan, assistant executive director of the Cambridge Housing Authority said that future Cambridge housing projects will stress family units. "When the MIT project was being planned in 1968, the greatest need was for elderly housing. The MIT project has helped fill...
...groups I happened to encounter before the day of the examination. My purpose in doing this was not to give special advantage to those who happened to be in class a particular day or who came to office hours or sat with me at lunch. My purpose was to stress a simple point I have always made about my courses and the written assignments and tests connected with them: that there is no trick or secret key to success; that what I wish, as a teacher, is a thoughtful reading of the assigned texts and an intelligent and critical attention...
...Nixon daughters' marriages showing signs of stress? In the February issue of McCall's, David Eisenhower concedes that Watergate is taking its toll in his marriage to Julie. "It's hard on Julie," he says. "In her public appearances she always has to be friendly. At home she will bark at me now and then." Mostly, it seems, about sharing the housework. "No matter how hard I try to reassure her that letting down on household chores doesn't mean I feel any less affection, I get the sense she can't understand that." Meanwhile...
PROFITS WILL be collected entirely by the federal government, but in an updating of revenue sharing large transfusions of capital will be channeled back to the local level in the form of pay-offs to police departments, district attorneys' offices, and the appropriate elected leaders. LOVE's architects stress that the program's primary consideration is not community service but individual profit. Its theoretical purpose, in other words, will be to direct the energies of the governmental bodies it involves more acutely to the needs of those they actually serve. It is hoped that LOVE will be able to eliminate...