Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...domain of the reckless adventurer or the traveler who could afford the money and leisure for a two-month cruise. Now Tokyo, Bangkok and Hong Kong are as accessible as Paris, Rome or London. Ten thousand tourists a week pour into the Orient, and many, traveling economy class, pay as little as $1,500 round trip...
...nation's prodigal waste of talent is no myth. About 20% of those in the upper quarter of their class do not stay on through high school; about half of the top 10% of high school seniors do not go to college; 40% of all college students fail to graduate. In sum: each year 400,000 talented U.S. youngsters quit school and college...
...only four years her junior, Berthe made her mark in a man's world, the just-born world of French impressionism. "Do you realize what this means?" one of her early painting teachers asked her mother when he realized how big a talent Berthe had. "In the upper-class milieu to which you belong, this will be revolutionary. I might almost say, catastrophic." But Mamma Morisot was not afraid f having her daughter turn artist, and her husband, a well-to-do civil servant, was broad-minded enough about the girl to introduce her to Painter Camille Corot...
...engineering. Recalls Professor Richard L. Richardson: "On his second day of school as a freshman, Terry raised his hand and asked if the homework amounted to nothing more than it appeared to be. I said 'No,' and he shook his head in disgust. Everybody in the class gave him a foul look as if to say, 'What are you doing here, fella?' " Richardson had barely recovered from that shock when Baker confided that he was thinking of switching to Stanford where the studies might be more challenging...
...remarked that the public sector of the economy in India accounts for about 60 per cent of the investment in the country. The consequent growth of public corporations has created a difficult problem of supplying a new managerial class...