Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company is small, with only 15 members, chosen on the basis of "technical strength and stage presence, "Druckman said. Company members do most of the choreography, taking a "very intellectual approach," Chin said. She added "the company tends to an extreme of modern dance--very abstract, almost experimental." But Druckman disagrees: "The different pieces have different feelings--some are more theatrical...
...need for action has not necessarily passed us by, but Ullman will attempt a lighter, comical approach...
...poor children are handicapped in learning to read. Schor's efforts resulted in a dramatic improvement in reading scores--51 per cent of the students were reading above the national norm while in other elementary schools in the same district the percentage was between 20 and 40. Schor's approach, although traditional, placed rigorous demands on his teachers to make sure all students, especially in the critical early grades, were able to read well and were not "crippled" for life. In a system of "accountability," teachers were held responsible for any students' failure to read. Hentoff points to the success...
...almost $1.5 million in the last 15 years. While Stevens is not a household word (yet), it is infamous to people in the industrial relations field. Boyd Leedom, former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), said: "J.P. Stevens is so out of tune with a humane, civilized approach to industrial relations that it should shock even those least sensitive to honor, justice and decent treatment." Because of its barbaric practices, NLRB officials have labeled Stevens the nation's leading labor law violator...
Last week U.S. and British diplomats were working on a new approach that would guarantee transfer of power to blacks while offering whites financial inducements to stay on. The proposals may be presented at a Rhodesian constitutional conference, either in London or somewhere in Africa, possibly in June. The U.S.-British joint plan differs from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's ill-fated program in one key respect: the makeup of an interim caretaker government will be tackled only after the question of a constitution for majority-ruled Zimbabwe (as blacks call Rhodesia) has been settled...