Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer justified, if it ever was, to think of suburbia only as a split-level heaven with neat picket fences. In fact, the term suburbia has become too broad; it covers Levittown as well as Greenwich, and some of the wealthiest communities have slummy enclaves next to the commuter-train tracks. According to 1960 figures, Pittsburgh's suburbs had more substandard dwellings than the central city, and poor families around Los Angeles outnumbered those in the city's heart. With an astonishing 40% of the nation's poor now living in suburbs, crime and pollution problems...
...that, Nixon's strategy is to cool the economy gradually, probably by concentrating more on monetary policy than the Democrats have done. He also aims to hold back federal spending on social programs by giving rather modest tax breaks and other incentives to private businessmen who hire and train the hard-core unemployed. Though many businessmen still doubt whether they can do more than dent the problem, the National Alliance of Businessmen this year got off to a good start by persuading 12,000 employers to hire 84,000 hard-core jobless people and to train many of them...
That was round one. After a wait of an hour ("their train's been held up," Ivers pleaded) the second group of the evening arrived--Gilbert Moses' Chaka (the name of a great Zulu warrior-chieftain...
...surface was to try to listen in on the Faculty discussion, but this simply shows how little the Faculty and the Administration felt pressed to consult students on an issue of fundamental importance to them. Incidentally, it is doubtful whether a moral issue, such as the "right" to train militarily on a campus for the purpose of post-graduate killing, can be decided by a referendum or any other democratic procedure. How valid would a favorable German vote to exterminate the Jews have been...
...repairs will cause more delays, according to MBTA officials. "It all depends on the running time of the special train," said Donald B. Eagles, MBTA Assistant Director for Public Information, "We can't maintain the headway that we normally do, but we try to maintain our normal schedule...