Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from beneath the P.R.I.'s outdated revolutionary slogans. Though the economy has grown at a rate of over 7% a year in recent times, it has become obvious that most of the workers and the peasants are being left behind by policies that favor the rich and the upper middle class. Added to that is one of the highest population-growth rates (3.5%) in the world; in the past 25 years the population has more than doubled, from 25 million to 58 million. Despite booming factories at home, unemployment and underemployment are still high (about...
Robert Moses was born in 1888 of a wealthy upper-class New York Jewish family. His maternal grandmother Rosalie lived her life according to a simple dictum eventually passed along to Robert: "I won't take no for an answer...
...assessment of merit. Organizers find the concept, which often ignores experience and time considerations, elitist and ugly enough, but it is the system in practice that especially disturbs them. Although a worker earns yearly wage-hikes for any work above a "marginal" level, as that worker approaches the upper salary limit of the employment "grade," the possible increments in pay decrease drastically. Organizers maintain that Harvard can hold down salaries by refusing to promote workers who have attained the limit of their grades...
...quest for power centers on General Antonio de Spinola, 64, who is acting as President until the promulgation of a new constitution, and the young left-leaning officers of the A.F.M. which actually led the coup in April. In July, the colonels and majors seemed to gain the upper hand. After the fall of the new government's first provisional Cabinet, they pushed Colonel Vasco Gongalves, 53, up to the post of Premier-against an unwilling Spinola...
...Concorde, say its manufacturers, is expected to start airline service in 1976. Even if the controversial plane does not win permission to land in the U.S., the numbers of supersonic craft jetting through the earth's upper atmosphere could be a threat to the well-being of Americans. It now seems clear that very high speeds at out-of-sight altitudes could drastically upset the whole planet's ecological balance...