Word: working
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...part of its continuing work with teachers and students, TIME'S Education Program last February distributed the first of a series of classroom-discussion kits dealing with controversial social issues. Called Black and White America, it proved so valuable that this week a second pamphlet. Drugs and the Young, will be distributed free to 5,500 teachers in the U.S. and Canada, plus another 300 overseas. The pamphlet will also be available to the public at $1.50 per copy...
...budget was made here. Begun in 1950, the impact aid program was designed to relieve the burden school districts bear when they must serve large numbers of children of federal employees. There are two classes of such aid: one for children whose parents-typically military families-live and work on a federal base and thus pay no local school taxes, another for children whose parents live in the community but work at a nontaxable installation. Nixon had asked $202 million. Congress voted $398 million more. There is little equity in the program; it pours $5,800,000 into the nation...
...three of the unions voted last month to accept an industry package that included wage increases of 680 an hour over a two-year period for skilled mechanics. But the 6,000-member Sheet Metal Workers objected to a provision for limited crossing of craft lines to permit incidental work at repair locations by whatever mechanics were available. Generally lower-skilled than members of the other unions, they feared that this rule could further reduce their importance. The union rejected the offer, and the others had to go along...
There is, in candor, nothing in the quality of the nominee's work to warrant any expectation whatever that he could serve with distinction on the Supreme Court...
...weekends. Ironically, it was during a prison term for burglary that Bellecourt decided he could help other Indians. "I read a lot of books," he says, "and I started finding out that I wasn't a savage, that I wasn't dirty?and that I was smart." For his work, he is paid a salary by the Urban Coalition...