Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are many modifying conditions, however. A given applicant competes against only those people who have applied for the same type and price room as he. Also, the requirement for equitable distribution must be observed. Each House tries to balance the number of men in the upper scholastic groups with a proportional number from the lower group...
...combination of Junta, Harris, and Gravem should give the Crimson a powerful top three which it has not had for many years. Also, the probable combination of Junta and Harris at first doubles will add to this upper squad strength...
...Minister (except in war, when the Chancellor becomes commander in chief). The Socialists in turn abandoned all-out opposition on rearmament, concentrated on making sure that the reconstituted German army would never become a militaristic menace but would take its subordinate place under civilian and parliamentary control. Once the upper house and President Heuss add their approval, the new citizens' Bundeswehr* (Federal Defense Force) can get on with plans to take in some 90,000 men by the end of 1956, and to train 500,000 men (a twelve-division army, a 20-wing air force and a small...
...priestly frailty, but writes with enough basic compassion to avoid mere anticlericalism. He shares the front rank of present-day U.S. short story writing with such writers as John Cheever and J. D. Salinger, and he surprisingly evokes the same sad dilemma that plagues Cheever's disenchanted Upper East Side Manhattanites and Salinger's poor little rich boys with fractured psyches. The Presence of Grace is really about the absence of love...
...claimed that lowering the upper-level tax rates would not increase the tax burden on other groups if it were accompanied by rigid enforcement and elimination of loopholes...