Word: upward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While in high school, Robert, 19, joined the HEW-sponsored Upward Bound program, which helped him attend special courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, paying room, board and pocket expenses. Last September he began his freshman year at Northeastern University. A $900 scholarship from the state coupled with a $1,600 grant from HEW'S Educational Opportunities program covered more than half of the $4,370 cost. His job in the library, which he obtained through an HEW-assisted work-study program, and an HEW-financed student loan, made up the difference...
...American values. Many executives, especially those in their 40s and 50s, still march to the company drum and accept transfers as a means of rising. But younger executives?and their spouses ?are revolting against the stress and insecurity of the mobile society. Their rejection of the onward and upward American work ethic echoes Pop Star Billy Joel's hit: "If that's movin' up/ Then I'm movin' out." Or, as TRW Vice President James Dunlap says, "There's a feeling that work isn't everything these days. You've got to stop and smell the flowers along...
Economics is this year's most popular concentration choice among freshmen, following a ten-year upward trend in enrollment in that field, according to statistics released last week by the Office of the Registrar...
...with a better feel of the power he has, but one startled by the power he does not have. He is still searching for his formula for success, told by many he is failing but convinced he is on the edge of comprehension and the beginning of a journey upward...
...metaphor may be strained, but the perception is as realistic as it is frightening. Since the late 1960s, inflation has first crept, then leaped upward, expanding its list of victims to include just about the whole of U.S. society. A rare investor, rich and savvy enough to buy Renaissance paintings, Chinese ceramics or African diamonds, may still make money out of inflation, but for almost everyone else the inexorable rise in prices makes economic life a debilitating race in which one must run ever harder just to stay even...