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When one heard French spoken in Sarasota, the subject was often the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The GATT pact would abolish quotas protecting local products, including movies. The American film industry dominates screens in France (and much of the rest of the world), and its producers tell the French: Make movies your people want to see. But for the French, opposition to GATT is a holy war against America's cultural imperialism -- what used to be called Coca-Colonization -- and in favor of small, distinctly savory vintages from home...
...logical extension of privatization is to eliminate public schools completely--and, consequently, to abolish property taxes and expropriated monies that currently pay for public education...
...proposal, submitted by the Task Force on the Potential of Students, would abolish "tracking," or the placement of students in all classes according to their academic ability. The task force aims to upgrade the difficulty of most classes to the "accelerated" level to ensure that all students are reaching their potential, according to Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, a chair of the committee...
Wilkinson has a simple answer: Abolish thefour-year limit on teachers' jobs at Expos...
...Republicans left the White House having turned the NEA from a sacred cow into a matador's bull -- and having diverted a third of its nominal allocation to potential pork barrel by state arts councils. Even that wasn't enough for Jesse Helms and Patrick Buchanan, who sought to abolish the NEA for purportedly funding obscenity and irreligious bigotry, based on a handful of controversial grants among 100,000 the NEA has given...