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...effect of the curve is twofold, be said. Average students are insured against being failed by unusually tough graders, and honors students are protected against the cheapening of their achievement by easy graders...
...living standards and secure the independence of the nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America. To make this design enduring, the U.S. insisted that Britain become a member of the Common Market, followed by the Scandinavian and other NATO countries. The defense of this grand design would be twofold: conventional arms and armies supplied by Europe, and the nuclear umbrella held aloft...
Gift for One-Fifth. Franco's decision to end Spain's long cultural and political isolation is based on his twofold conviction that 1) the populace as a whole now accepts his regime, and 2 ) Spain cannot survive economically if it is excluded from the European Common Market, whose members bitterly dislike his autocratic ways. The stubborn illegal strikes that crippled Spain's economy for two months last year also forced el Caudillo to recognize that the country's hard-pressed workers are desperately eager to enjoy living standards comparable to those of other Europeans...
...Delhi, Britain's Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman sat through a grueling round of conferences with Indian officials. Their mission was twofold: to organize military aid to beleaguered India, and to seek an end to India's long festering dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir. The controversy dates back to independence in 1947, when the Hindu ruler of Kashmir opted to join India instead of Moslem Pakistan, despite the fact that 77% of the province is Moslem. Bloody violence erupted; the United Nations proposed a plebiscite as a means of settling...
...Policy, a 21-member group including Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. Said the committee last week: "The U.S. can and must improve its recent record of economic progress. Economic policy should be directed at strengthening the expansionary powers of the economy. Our objective should be twofold: in the short run we must increase total demand for both consumption and investment; in the long run we must achieve a more rapid rate of growth of our productivity capacity. The main tool for promoting our economic objectives in 1963 should be a prompt and significant reduction in income...