Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...described SHS as a program giving informal, unofficial advice "to help the 40 to 50 per cent of freshmen who do not have a ready-made background adviser," such as a friend or relative in one of the upper classes...
...feminist movement has by and large collapsed into a rather bizarre disarray. Yet 100,000 people marched in Washington to show their support for women's rights, and millions more must surely realize the sensibility of sexual equality. Here is a clear case of inertia holding the upper hand...
Congressional pressure has also forced the Administration to abandon hope for enactment of the bill's capital gains provisions. The reforms, which would have raised capital gains taxes for some upper-income taxpayers, reflected Carter's populist belief that tax breaks on gains from sales of stocks and other property do little for the economy and benefit mainly wealthy investors. Though the White House would now be grudgingly content to see the tax remain at its present maximum effective rate of 49%, the Steiger amendment seeks to cut the rate to no more than 25%, the level that...
...world are such defensive tactics so pervasive-or extreme. Although American executives would be appalled by the kind of precautions that Italians must take, the Italians themselves shrug off personal danger as just one more situation requiring the ancient art of arrangiarsi (literally, to make shift) -getting the upper hand on life's many minor irritations. Since the country's wave of kidnapings developed in the early 1970s, 241 Italians have been snatched for ransom. Top executives remain prime victims. Two weeks ago, Movie Producer Niccolo De Nora was released after a record 524 days in captivity...
...needles will project into his scalp and enable him to shoot a rocket merely by thinking the command to fire. Another project, developed at Fort Benning, Ga., allows a commander to send silent coded orders to troops in the field-electronic blips are transmitted through electrodes attached to the upper arms or abdomens of each soldier. So far, Watson reports, properly trained men can recognize 95% of these coded messages...