Word: substandard
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...entire population lives in India. There are more Indians than there are Americans and Russians put together, more people in India (357 million) than there are in all of Europe outside Russia. And still 5,000,000 more Indians are born every year. To provide even a substandard diet for its people, the Indian government must import some 3,000,000 tons of grain each year...
...nation's most crowded urban areas, highly industrial Cambridge suffers from very poor housing conditions. A WPA survey made in 1941-43 of some of the more crowded areas of the city found that about 86 percent of those surveyed were living in substandard buildings. Conditions have improved only slightly since that time...
...famous (or just interesting) people for an informal interview and a glance at their private lives. "This will be a relaxed show, based on curiosity," says Murrow. "It's not supposed to be the greatest thing on television." It isn't. While interesting enough, it is substandard Murrow, who sets high TV standards with his See It Now and special documentaries. From his studio armchair Murrow gazes at a large "window," which seems to lead into an adjoining living room (a remote picture is superimposed on the studio scene). On his first show, he gabbed with Brooklyn Dodgers...
...same hackneyed theme that if only John Dewey and William Heard Kilpatrick and their ideas had never existed, then education would be far better than it is ... Your war should not be directed against educators who are earnestly attempting to improve the profession but against conditions which foster substandard teaching . . . Substandard teaching has its origin in the community, not with John Dewey...
...coal mines in October fell 112,000 tons short of their target." Chief reason, said Gero, an "anti-machine attitude" on the part of the workers, if "The extent of substandard work in [some] steel-rolling mills is outright intolerable...