Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet economy. The nation employs eight times as many farm workers as does the U.S., or about 23% of the entire Soviet work force. The farm sector soaks up about one-quarter of all investment capital, five times more than that spent in the U.S. Yet for all this, actual farm output remains only 80% of the U.S.'s. Says Soviet Economic Expert Gregory Grossman of the University of California at Berkeley: "The organization is wrong, the prices are wrong, the tools are wrong. Basically, everything is wrong...
Vladimov's allegory of contemporary Soviet society, which was inspired by an actual event, hardly needs to be explained to Soviet readers. As a fable of literary life, it signifies that the official hounds schooled under Stalin are likely to keep biting at the heels of insubordinate writers in the Soviet Union for a long time to come...
...UNITED STATES, the President, the public and Congress have rushed into draft registration. The move had scarcely a shred of military justification; its main impetus was a dangerous desire to "do something about the Russians." However, refusing to register is a drastic step, one not justified by the actual magnitude...
Concerned students ought to resist those who wish to bring an actual military draft into reality. At the same time, resistance through breaking the law ought to be the very last step one takes. One should do it only when it becomes certain that one must either defy the law or be immediately forced into losing one's rights. That time has not come...
...Thus far actual test scores of teacher applicants seem depressing. In Louisiana, for instance, only 53% passed in 1978, 63% last year. What about the ones who fail? Says Louisiana Certification Director Jacqueline Lewis: "Obviously they're moving out of state to teach in states where the tests are not required." The results of basic achievement tests taken by job applicants at Florida's Pinellas County school board (St. Petersburg, Clearwater) are not encouraging. Since 1976, the board has required teacher candidates to read at an advanced tenth-grade level and solve math problems at an eighth-grade...