Word: across
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Skylab showered debris across this country, I'm glad that God, and not NASA, put the moon into orbit around the earth...
...base problems. Lamented Landrieu to whoever would listen: "If we can get our hands on it, we tax it, and if it moves, then we tax it again." When he left office in 1978 to become a real estate developer, he had won the respect of mayors across the country...
...about leadership. Followers persist in the belief that crises produce leaders, in the way that the blitz produced Churchill. But obviously, leadership does not arise automatically, mystically, from need. The Hittites and Mayas went into crisis, and no leaders could rescue them from their extinction. The Black Death swept across the 14th century, and nobody came forward to lead men out of their chaotic misery...
Despite new hazards and constraints, there is no shortage of talent; leaders are continuing to emerge across...
...shouts Jackson to a crowd of 10,000 enthusiastic teenagers. His mission is to inspire ghetto youngsters to change their lives by studying hard. A former aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson has spent the past three years taking his Chicago-based PUSH-EXCEL program to schools across the country. PUSH-EXCEL requires teachers to assign homework, students to study two hours a night, and parents to provide support. Follow-up programs are sometimes weak and the long-range effectiveness remains to be seen, but some PUSH-EXCEL programs have produced lower absentee rates and higher morale. Says...