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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Telephone poll of 1,002 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on July 18-19 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus...
Among the first to jump into this new market niche was perhaps the least likely: Club Med. Once the ultimate swinging adult summer camp, Club Med saw its customers growing up and recognized that many baby boomers did not want to have to choose between their travel fantasies and time with their children. By introducing Baby Clubs, Mini Clubs and children's programs at 40 locations worldwide, Club Med has become a leader in family vacations. Other luxury resorts have followed suit. The Village at Smugglers' Notch in Vermont even offers a money-back guarantee: "If your child for some...
...with conservatives, it has barely helped his national image. His frat-house mien, accentuated by an appearance younger than his 42 years, is compounded by his reliance on ebullient cliches when he lacks a staff-written script. Too often he comes across as a kid struggling gamely with an adult role. While some surveys have shown a modest improvement in the public's general perception of him, he still gets negative marks on the critical question attaching to any Vice President: Is he qualified to assume the presidency? A May Gallup poll reported that 52% of Americans think...
...smaller communities for learning. This would be done by restructuring schools into "houses," or "schools within schools," each consisting of 200 to 300 students; grouping teachers and students together in teams; and assigning an adviser to each student, so that every child is well known by at least one adult...
...best argument in favor of the foundation's suggestions is that many of them have already been tried successfully: according to one study, 63% of middle schools provide health instruction, 40% assign adult advisers to students, 33% use team teaching, and 28% offer sex education. Breaking up large, impersonal schools into smaller units is also starting to gain acceptance. "It's a lot more work, but it's very stimulating," says Elizabeth Ophals, a social-studies teacher at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in New York City, where houses and team teaching were adopted last year...