Word: albert
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Dean, who presided over the award of Section 8 grants, had little background in housing but plenty of ambition and family connections. A cousin of Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, Dean variously referred to Mitchell as her father or stepfather after he began living with her widowed mother Mary Gore Dean. At HUD, Deborah Dean served as a sort of gatekeeper, controlling access to Pierce and enjoying wide powers to block projects. She told the Wall Street Journal that the rent-subsidies program was "set up and designed to be a political program ((and)) we ran it in a political manner...
Faced with mounting evidence of the failure of efforts to pour information into students' minds, a number of educators and researchers would like to see more apprenticeship in the classroom. Says Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers: "Schools are not organized according to the way most people learn. We might be more successful if we structured learning in schools more like the way things are done in the real world -- with apprenticeship-type programs connecting abstract symbols to the solution of real problems...
...Albert B. Lord '34, the president of the Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, was misquoted in an article titled "PBK Holds Literary Exercises" in yesterday's Class Day section. He introduced William S. Merwin as someone with "a serious dedication to the mission and knowledge of the Bible...
Merwin, who read his poem, "The Day Itself," was introduced by President of the Alpha chapter Albert B. Lord '34 as having "a serious dedication to a knowledge and omission of the Bible...
...perhaps the strongest action yet, Senator Albert Gore last week introduced a bill that would empower local communities to set rates for basic cable services. To increase competition among cable-system operators, the Tennessee Democrat would allow telephone companies to enter the cable business. In addition, the bill asked the Federal Communications Commission to study the cross-ownership of cable networks and systems by the same companies. Said Gore, a frequent critic of the cable industry: "Deregulation has allowed too many cable companies to gouge consumers and left too many consumers as unprotected victims...