Word: wealthier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both the have and have-not camps, says the Pearson report, the aid climate is "heavy with disillusion and distrust," partly because "instant development" has proved illusory, partly because economic improvement has not always been "an antidote to violence," partly because the wealthier countries are turning to problems of their...
...past, the most frequent interracial alliances in volved ghetto blacks and suburban whites. Many of these were false to the extent that the wealthier whites were per forming acts of noblesse oblige that infuriated the white lower middle class and often the blacks themselves. Now the Philadelphia Antipoverty Action Committee has dis covered that black-white alliances are possible where racial neighborhoods adjoin and share common dangers and demands. Thus, black and white parents last year formed a community-action committee that preserved GET SET, a pre school program that both groups felt their children urgently needed...
...past century, ten divorce bills have been introduced in Parliament, but none ever got out of committee. Under the 1929 Concordat between Mussolini and the Vatican, the law was even tightened. Up to that time, foreign divorces had been recognized, giving wealthier Italians an escape hatch. The Concordat abolished this exception, and slammed shut the hatch...
...several reasons for the rising rents in the city. The two mammoth universities bring in more students than they can house and the overflow spills into the city housing market. Since 1960 the number of Harvard students living in Cambridge has risen by nearly one third. Students are generally wealthier than workers in areas like East Cambridge and can afford to pay higher rents. People associated with the universities--secretaries, clerks, faculty, hangers on, etc.--compound the problem...
Assuming that Harvard's lawyers can contrive ways to mingle the endowments of the two institutions an combine food service and buildings and grounds, the immediate difficulty will still be a financial one. Radcliffe girls are on the average from much wealthier families than Harvard undergraduates, and Radcliffe scholarships are proportionately fewer and smaller. Last week the Harvard Office of Admissions and Scholarships asked a huge supplementary budget grant to finance a drive to recruit more students from poverty areas. The capacity of the Office to give 300 new female students the same kind o scholarship treatment it gives male...