Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what am I going to say? Well, I could mention the futility of words. That's always a winner in CRIMSON closed reports. Or I could talk about how Harvard should either time-travel back to the seventeenth century or adjust to the newer ones. Or I could talk about my amazement at discovering that Harvard buildings are often littered with hand-scrawled signs bearing institutional messages instead of neatly printed ones. Or about the pure hate I have felt on occasion for University administrators-like on April 10, 1969. Or about the cold fear I feel when I realize...
...many others are victims of the "notch effect" that diminishes the impact of America's welfare programs by diminishing incentives for self-improvement. A realistic example: a family receives benefits of $350 a month. The mother gets a $450-a-month job, but it involves expenses such as travel and baby sitters. The salary, however, puts her over the allowable income?the notch?and because the family loses all benefits there is no incentive to work...
...over the next four days they are given medical checkups, new papers, job counseling and briefings. When the refugees are ready to leave the camp, the Bonn government provides each family of four with the equivalent of $200; the newcomers are also entitled to reimbursement for visa and travel expenses. In labor-short West Germany, where 900,000 jobs are open, the refugees should have no trouble finding work...
Rivers is in the course of expanding his reputation as the U.S.'s most resourceful "historical" painter with a project entitled "Some American History," which opens this week at Rice University's Institute for the Arts in Houston and will travel to several other cities. Commissioned by the de Ménil Foundation of Houston, its theme is the historical experience of blacks in America...
There are a few bright daubs in the gray austerity. Last week American introduced modish new outfits for its stewardesses; aiming to please all tastes, the uniforms include mini and midi skirts as well as shorts. Still, all the cost shaving, plus improved travel prospects for spring, are making the carriers' long-depressed stocks increasingly attractive. One day last week seven of the 15 most actively traded issues on the Big Board were airlines, and all seven posted gains...