Word: substandards
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...warranty work, allowing only a 25% profit margin for parts, compared with the 40% or more that a dealer can charge for nonwarranty work. As a result, dealers usually do warranty work only on cars that they have sold. The work they do, says the FTC, is often "substandard" because the mechanic is urged on to other jobs...
...millions, New York is an increasingly unfavorable habitat. Within the past two to three years, rents on noncontrolled apartments have risen as much as 100%-with hikes of 40% and 50% common. Still, 800,000 units, a quarter of the city's dwellings, are listed as substandard. Replacing them would be a task equal to rebuilding two-thirds of blitz-shattered London, and several of the impoverished ghettos are as big as medium-sized cities. Traffic is scarcely better; every day 3,500,000 people crowd into nine square miles of Manhattan south of Central Park, the equivalent...
...with no Negroes in its entering class of 131, so it recruited four who may need tutoring in science. Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, with a class of 132, accepted four Negroes on the strength of routine tests, then added a fifth who had a substandard school record but showed unusual motivation...
...Substandard dialogue and music can sometimes be forgiven, though not enjoyed . But The Golden Screw is unforgiveably inane because Sankey looked at the world, saw that it was not perfect, and plugged in the easiest wrong answers. Protest songs and rock music are hardly decadent--they represent a social and artistic commitment to our world. They, not "John Henry" are the songs of us folk, as hip Country and Western groups. Sure, folk music is often great and gutsy. But the simplistic Romantic anti-sellout sentiment it symbolizes in this play really equals the willful alienation of Sankey's hero...
...white families are classified as poor. But 32% of all black families are classified as poor. Thus, while only one out of every seven white persons in America is poor, one out of every three black persons is poor. What's more, 45% of all substandard housing in America is occupied by black people...