Word: extras
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...must have children or he is not a man" throughout the Moslem world, there is the belief that children are "a gift of Allah"; and in many places, a barren woman is an object of pity. In lands where death comes early and often, those who wish extra hands in the fields fear to have few children. In rural Ceylon, people look upon large families as the first step to political influence; so, on an international scale, do ambitious leaders of small states-such as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah...
Another "scandal," says Harvard Economist Seymour E. Harris, is proliferation of college courses. By his count, undergraduate courses at eleven top institutions have jumped from 12,000 to 39,000 in the past 55 years. Result: too many small classes. And a "high-quality" school that maintains an extra-low teacher-student ratio may be fooling itself: when it has more teachers than it can pay adequately, their performance suffers. By increasing the ratio, says the report, "most colleges can ease their financial problems very substantially without reducing the quality of their instruction...
...Jones industrial average. Even with a drop in trading, the 1959 volume was certain to be the heaviest since 1929. Totting up the commissions on the trading, brokers happily paid out the fattest year-end bonuses in many a season. At Paine Webber, the extra checks averaged nearly six weeks' pay; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith reported that its oldest employees were getting better than eight weeks' extra pay. In some smaller over-the-counter houses, with low overhead, employees got as much as nine months' additional...
...laid to the pressures inherent in a crash program. But as the failures pile up, Martin is getting so edgy (Martin crews call their pads at Canaveral "the inferiority complex") that the experts accuse it of becoming "fail-safe happy," of burdening the Titan with too many extra safety relays and circuits, gadgets that in themselves fail...
Crimson teams have a traditional habit of checking the super stars of Eastern hockey for 59 minutes of amazing defensive play, then bringing on a season's worth of frustration during the extra minute. Such was the case against St. Lawrence, when the Crimson held all-East Terry Slater and Larry Langill to one goal, only to be bombed by four goals from the second line of Tom Lawlor, who scored a hat trick, Gordon Brown, and Paul Gaudet...