Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...improve education at Harvard, but as things progressed it became the issue of what the purpose is, and that touched education universally. He now wants a statement of what the whole thing means, a statement for medium-sized private universities like this about what should be done in the 1980s for undergraduate education," Pipkin says. This is certainly the aim, as Rosovsky admits, yet all statements of this sort are tempered by further disclaimers maintaining that "nothing radical will come of this" or "success is uncertain" or "the examination is worthwhile even if it fails." In a sense, Rosovsky realizes...
...demographic changes. Zajonc notes, as other researchers have also observed, that the circumstances of being the first-born and of being a member of a small family both lead to greater intellectual performance. Since in 1963 U.S. families began to get smaller, he hypothesizes that by the early 1980s 18-year-olds taking the SATs will score higher...
...years later he played at the inaugural party of President Warren Harding and was on his way to becoming a favorite society and college bandteader. So popular was the Davis sound that his bands were booked years in advance and have already contracted to play at balls in the 1980s...
...Chairman John deButts: "I anticipate that by the early 1980s cables of glass fibers will be carrying thousands of simultaneous messages between major switching centers in our big cities...
...height of folly to say how things will be in Iran, as it would have been to foresee what it would be like starting a school in India a few years ago, he says. "And if the university is like we want it to be in the 1980s then everybody will be better...