Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America, Shinagel grew up in Washington Heights in upper Manhattan. His parents both had to work, and Shinagel attended Bronx High School of Science-one of the best public schools in the country...
University administrators are particularly concerned with making a Harvard education available to middle-income students. Upper income families have always been able to provide for themselves, and universities and the government have often tried to help poorer students obtain educations, but the class now defined by income levels between $20,000 and $50,000 has largely been ignored. Harvard's attempts to ease the burden on the middle class rely on a combination of loans and student employment. Administrators are now encouraging middle-and lower-income students to help themselves by seeking jobs of their own, chiefly through the expanding...
...Motorists stopping at gas stations along New Jersey's Garden State Parkway were restricted to $3 maximum purchases, which put little more than three gallons in their tanks and would move gas guzzlers a mere 30 miles. But in resort areas from Cape Cod to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, enough gas appeared available to handle holiday crowds...
...House Democratic Caucus last week voted 138 to 69 to continue controls. The vote will have no effect unless it is repeated by the full House and Senate, and in the upper chamber oil-state Senators probably could sustain a filibuster against continued controls. But the revolt does underline Carter's inability to get a consensus, even within his own party, on any kind of energy policy...
...Jean Talon, an upper-middle-class area of Quebec City, Louise Beaudoin, a regional president of the Parti Quebecois, was trounced by an obscure Liberal lawyer, Jean-Claude Rivest. At the same time, Claude Ryan, the new leader of the provincial Liberal Party, won a 2-to-l victory in rural Argenteuil. A former editor of Montreal's influential daily Le Devoir, Ryan, 54, is not only a fresh political face but a debater whose verbal agility is a match for Levesque's. Last week Ryan called on Clark to support a constitutional change that would guarantee French...