Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Youth Fare, appearing as it did after my friends and I had made 18 transcontinental train trips, was an Emancipation Proclamation for the middleclass student. Across the country, youths in the 12-22 age bracket swarmed to the airports; by 1968 six million per year were taking advantage of the reduced fares...
Examiner Arthur S. Present calls for doing away with youth fare in his January 21 decision on the grounds that it is "unjustly discriminatory" against those who are not in the 12 to 21 age bracket...
...suggest cool competence I rather than passion or brilliance. They are problem solvers rather than idea brokers. They span the Republican midsection from the moderate progressives to the responsible conservatives, stopping short of ideological extremes. They are mostly affluent, some in the millionaire bracket, but they earned their money rather than inheriting it. There are no blooded patricians in the lot, just strivers who have acted out the middle-class dream. Thus, as much as any dozen individuals can, Richard Nixon's new Cabinet members mirror the qualities of their boss, of the campaign he waged, of the aspirations...
...Stock Exchange has sold quite so briskly as its slogan, "Own Your Share of American Business." The number of in vestors who do has risen from 6,000,000 to 24 million since 1953. One in eight Americans-more than half of them in the under $10,000 income bracket-participate in "people's capitalism...
...explanation for this might be that just not enough to get into the Harvard bracket. Considering that the underrepresented income groups outnumber the privileged (i.e., Harvard income) in the population by about 7 to 1 in absolute numbers, the total scoring above 650 could be at least the same. The median preppie family income was approximately $26,000: that of the pubbies, $17,00: the mean for preppies was $45,000; for pubbies, $32,000. The preppie median according to Loewen's survey is three and one-half times the national median and 56 per cent higher than the rest...