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...aren't there more opportunities to pursue writing on a variety of competency levels? The immediate answer appears to be monetary. However, while most sources agree with Shore that "the English Department has no money to hire people to teach additional classes," some feel the budgetary hurdle could be overcome and that subtler reasons exist for limiting the size of the writing program...
...answer, one of the Premier's aides argues that "Peres wages psychological warfare." The personable, quick-witted Minister of Defense is a much finer speaker than Rabin, handles the press well and thus frequently outshines the dour Premier in public. Peres' supporters, moreover, have tried to malign Rabin by spreading rumors that he cracks under pressure, drinks too much, has crude manners and exercises little leadership. They have even whispered that Rabin waffled before authorizing the commando rescue at Uganda's Entebbe Airport. All this, of course, is proof to Rabin's backers that Peres...
...wonder, then, that colleges are looking forward to some help in evaluating the writing skills of freshmen before they arrive on campus. The College Entrance Examination Board (C.E.E.B.) has decided to add to its college-admissions testing program next fall a short-answer test of standard English. In experimental use for three years, this exam will now become a separate but permanent adjunct of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) that is taken by roughly 1.4 million students each year. Further, the board will reinstitute a 20-minute essay section in the present English Composition Achievement Test, one of 15 exercises...
...embargo in 1973. Now, the consuming countries are about to pay the OPEC piper for their neglect. In mid-December, oil ministers of OPEC'S 13 member nations will gather in Qatar. "Are we going to hike our prices?" asks Iran's Hamid Zaheri, OPEC spokesman. His answer: yes. The only real question is how much...
When the First Women's Bank opened a year ago on Manhattan's 57th Street, it was heralded as the answer to a feminist prayer. Founded by a small group of activists, among them Author Betty Friedan and Dress Designer Pauline Trigère, the new bank was supposed to be run as well as owned primarily by women and to give "special attention to the needs" of female depositors and borrowers who felt unwelcome at big, established banks. If such a venture'can be a commercial success, the first year has hardly proved the point...