They showed greater blood pressure benefits than high school drop-outs but lesser benefits than holders of master's degrees or doctorates, the study found.

这项研究显示，学位给他们的血压带来的益处比高中肄业的人要多，但比硕士或博士学位获得者要少。

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It helps reduce the number of high school drop-outs in Los Angeles and the San Francisco area.

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Unemployment among high school drop-outs has always been far higher than the national norm.

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California now lags behind the rest of the country in the rate at which the number of its jobs filled by high-school drop-outs is declining.

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Overall, state adult literacy programmes proved to be very unattractive even to young school drop-outs who wished to resume and complete their elementary studies.

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