Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free life insurance (up to $20,000 worth), free medical coverage, bonuses (up to $6,700 a year) and retirement pensions (up to $821 a month). "Statistics show," it warned archly, "that out of every 100 people who reach the age of 65, 84 are flat broke, eight are weak financially, six are comfortable, and two are well off." Sign on the dotted line...
Both the fencing and basketball squads depart from Cambridge's friendly environs: the fencers to the decidedly inimical atmosphere of the powerful C.C.N.Y. fencing team, and the hoopsters to the amiable surroundings of a weak, almost hapless, Williams quintet...
...Crimson foil contingent, traditionally the weak sister of Harvard's fencing squad, paved the way to a 16-11 romp over M.I.T. last night...
...certainly comes as no surprise to learn that the Overseers' Committee to study Harvard's teaching fellow program has uncovered "a considerable amount of uninspired, inexperienced, and weak teaching." Any one who has read the CRIMSON's Confidential Guide over the years, or talked to undergraduates, knows that poor teaching is the biggest complaint students have about the College...
...fonos, which Trouyet has turned into Mexico's biggest publicly held company. Nationalization talk was widespread in the late 1950s after its two previous controlling owners, International Telephone & Telegraph and Sweden's Ericsson telephone group, passed word that they were becoming disenchanted with the then weak company. But Trouyet persuaded the government to let his private group buy it for $25 million, later sweetened the pot by putting three government men on the board. Today well-run Telefonos has about 50,000 shareholders in Mexico, and a fortnight ago 200,000 shares worth $1,800,000 were...