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Bush may claim the title "education president." but his record of silence as the administration cut student aid and education budgets shows how concerned he's been for the issue before the campaign. Dukakis has proposed a college loan program that would adjust repayment schedules to a graduate's earnings and ensure that everyone can afford to attend school. He has proposed a teachers training effort to stave the frightening shortage of educators. He intends to work with the educational system in order to improve it; not waste another administration with unproductive confrontation...
Until the mid-1970s when the term "displaced homemakers" was coined, few official programs existed to help these women adjust to reentering the work force...
...military area, Massoud believes that the mujahedin must strike a decisive blow soon, before Najibullah can adjust to the departure of the Soviets, who are scheduled to complete their troop withdrawal by Feb. 15. The government has 150,000 troops dug in around major cities. To face them in a final showdown, Massoud is training 10,000 men, initial units of an "Islamic army," to fight like a conventional force, rather than as hit-and-run marauders. Training, in camps spread along the rugged northern flanks of the Hindu Kush, includes the use of U.S.-supplied Stinger antiaircraft missiles...
Trailing 10-4 at halftime, Hafferty started employing a sloughing defense to prevent MIT from getting the ball to Schrorr in the hole. The Engineers did not adjust to the strategy, allowing the Crimson to slowly climb back into the game on two goals by Todd Forman and scores by Johnson and Andy Freed...
...needed a match like this," Lem said. "Our transition was slow. Hofstra is a hard serving team. We weren't able to adjust to their serves quickly enough...