Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...33rd week of the Cyprus emergency, Prime Minister Eden got up in the House of Commons and announced the failure of "another approach to this most intractable question on the international level." The British government had finally agreed to the principle of self-determination for the Cypriots, Eden explained, but its valued ally Turkey would not stand for it. Therefore "Her Majesty's Government have to accept that for the moment progress by this means cannot be realized...
...personal achievements of Graham as a Christian and as evangelist should be duly appreciated. But they do not materially alter the fact that an individualistic approach to faith and commitment, inevitable as it may be, is in danger both of obscuring the highly complex tasks of justice in the community and of making too sharp distinctions between the 'saved' and the 'unsaved...
...richest ($2.5 billion) philanthropic organization in the world, the Ford Foundation supports hundreds of projects and some have raised storms of controversy. Last week one autonomous subsidiary, the Fund for the Republic, was locked in battle with a congressional committee because of its wobbly approach to the problem of Communism (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ignoring its offspring's noisy troubles, the foundation quietly beefed up its command, picked a new president to succeed able Lawyer H. Rowan Gaither Jr., who continues only as the foundation's board chairman. The foundation's new boss: Henry Townley Heald, president...
...math skills they should have learned in high school. It assigned young (then 26) Mathematician Max Beberman of the University's College of Education to show the high schools how to step up their math instruction. Beberman, later joined by Page, decided the trouble lay in the whole approach to math teaching. He junked old methods, drew up a new curriculum, now has five Midwest high schools trying his theories on college-bound students. Many mathematicians regard Beberman's new method as the most important reform in nearly a century, and the Carnegie Corporation has voted...
...course, this whole emphasis proved wrong. It sent the lecture off in the direction of anecdotal entertainment, and in turn forced entirely the wrong approach on the teacher...