Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swift change indicates the fickle nature of popularity. The figures by themselves prove little 15 months before Election Day, but they are a symptom of Johnson's deep political troubles. The wars, Asian and urban, and such of their echoes as higher taxes, are not likely to disappear soon, and Congress shows little willingness to ease the Administration's difficulties. Top Democrats are openly perturbed. "I can't say things have been worse," says one National Committee official. Michigan's state party chairman, Zolton Ferency, predicts a Johnson defeat next year if Viet Nam and racial...
...meet stiff competition at college. Yet these depressions should be transient, from a situational and development point of view. That they are transient is a hypothesis that should be test by following students, like those the present project, into adult life and determining whether or not adjustment mechanisms and symptom change...
...mass resignation was just the latest painful symptom of the sickness that prevails in the nation's largest and least efficient public-school system. To service a student population of more than 1,000,000, and pay a teacher staff of 54,600, New York next year proposes to spend $1.1 billion-more than is spent by 26 states to operate their entire governments. The budget breaks down to an expenditure of about $1,000 a year per student, roughly $400 above the national average; teacher salaries are among the highest of large U.S. cities. Yet the results...
...French dealt from strength. After 30 years of controls, the government restored freedom to the franc and, to the surprise of moneymen everywhere, abolished controls over gold as well. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve Board reported a symptom of weakness: the nation's gold stock fell another $571 million last year, to $13.2 billion, the lowest level since...
...Harvard faculty, and its counterpart at all universities, should publicly disavow the destructive aspects of ranking, arguing that they are but one symptom of the basically misconceived student deferment...