Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occupational distribution of Negro graduates of Harvard in the era 1920s-1960s was also exceptional. Nearly 20 per cent entered business, 8 per cent science and technology, 13 per cent scholarship, 18 per cent medicine and 15 per cent law. On the other hand, the vast majority of graduates of Negro colleges in this period followed careers in education--overwhelmingly as public school teachers...
Though the past several years have seen some dissolution of the no-win ethnic solidarity patterns among Harvard blacks, the attenuation of this behavior has still not gone far enough. Nor will this occur until we have more of those black students who exploit and make use of the vast variety of superior success-patterns that prevail at top-rank white colleges...
...years, professional Mittyman Plimpton has dreamed of orchestrating an international exhibition of fireworks, and last week he finally gave it a crack in Manhattan's Central Park. Plimpton's pyrotechnics featured music and 3½ minutes of displays from each of seven nations. "The Chinese firecrackers were vast chrysanthemum bursts. The Italians were all noise," says he by way of review. Why is he so hot on fireworks? Says Plimpton, who is now working on a book about the world of contemporary tennis as seen through the eyes of oldtimers: "As an artist and a writer, the idea...
...blacks, who suffered the consequences of slavery, another American "mistake"), they continue to face special problems. American Indians have a significantly lower life expectancy and a higher infant mortality rate than the U.S. population at large. They suffer the economic exploitation of the giant energy companies, who seek the vast quantities of coal and uranium buried underneath the remaining Indian land. Indian workers, for example, have been sent to work in the uranium mines for years without adequate warning of, or protection from, the deadly radioactive gas radon and its breakdown products present in those mines. According to the Union...
...prevent a further fall in the value of the greenback, the U.S. Government, in close cooperation with leading foreign central banks, should step in and buy large quantities of dollars on world markets. This would require assembling a vast war chest of funds to show currency speculators that Washington has the money to back up that policy. Two fast and impressive steps would be increasing sales from the nation's $60 billion gold reserves, as former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns suggests, and enlarging the so-called swap network of dollar defense funds from $25 billion to $100 billion...