Word: upper
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...school admission and age an analysis emphasizing decreasing middle class admissions. This totally ignores the main finding of the study and the political situation in the medical school. The study showed that the top two social classes correlating with the top 10 per cent income group in this country (upper middle class) have made up 70-75 per cent of Harvard Medical Classes over the past 15 years. Slight shifts in class III (lower middle class) and class IV and V (working class) are overshadowed by the continuing dominance by the upper middle class...
...were a month ago?" The question was asked at a kind of political rap session held last week in the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville, Md. The leader was Hyman Bookbinder of the American Jewish Committee's capital office. The participants were 65 mostly middleaged, upper-middle-class Jews who gather with him each month. Lately the discussion has been chiefly about Israel and its prospects for peace and survival. Bookbinder watched carefully as slowly, hesitantly, one hand after another was raised until a clear majority signified...
...their prestige is determined by the number of shiny new weapons that rumble past the reviewing stand during a military parade. Moreover, disputed borders and the suspicion of seemingly hostile neighbors frequently lead to intense local arms races. This has been the case with India and Pakistan, Mali and Upper Volta, and Peru, Bolivia and Chile...
McElroy said that "roughly half" of the freon now being released into the upper atmosphere comes from spray cans. Freon causes most of the reduction of the ozone layer, he said...
...actural forces of supply and demand primarily for housing but also for commercial space--are such that it is only necessary for Harvard to do nothing for Cambridge to become a predominantly upper middle class community--that is to say, a community very much like Harvard itself. In one sense, such an evolution would resolve many of the conflicts between university and community of which this committee has spoken. Life would be deplete for Harvard. But is would not be better...