Word: aspect
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...many educators, the most unsettling aspect of the Reagan discipline message is that it does not address the need to keep students in school. Although expulsion is sometimes necessary, educators believe that most students can be reached. In 1979 at Samuel Gompers Vocational-Technical High School in the South Bronx, only 60% of the students regularly showed up for school, and teachers were afraid to stay after the last bell. A new principal, Victor Herbert, began fighting back with graffiti-free hallways, a more stimulating curriculum and special events. Last year at Gompers (enrollment: 1,500), attendance...
...19th century bourgeoisie acquired its dismal reputation partly because of what Gay calls its "lust to conceal" and partly because historians have been too inclined to listen to its cultural leaders, its pedagogues, its doctors and divines, who imposed on their society what Gay calls "learned ignorance." Any aspect of sex that diverged from the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply, they taught, was immoral and therefore must not happen...
...crucial aspect of the Soviets' original occupation plan was to build the Afghan army into an effective force. Nonetheless, that army has dwindled from 100,000 men in 1979 to about 40,000 today, as soldiers have deserted and civilians have done their best to escape forced conscription drives. To restore discipline in the population, the Soviets have relied more and more on the KhAD, the local version of the KGB. They have also vented their frustration by mounting reprisals against the civilian population. When Soviet convoys are attacked by Afghan rebels, Soviet-led squads now retaliate by burning...
Government does not involve only military affairs, to be sure. Every aspect of economic policy attracts similar expressions of right thinking. When Reagan was convinced that taxes had to be increased, after he had promised to cut them, he be gan referring not to taxes but to "revenue enhancements," a term apparently invented by Lawrence Kudlow, formerly of the Office of Management and Budget. The tendency seems to be spreading. A spokes man for Budget Director David Stockman won special recognition for declaring that the Administration was not considering a means test for Medicare but a "layering of bene fits...
...with advisers at the Bureau of Study Council and UHS, and with their help are planning to hold peer support groups beginning spring semester As many members are "recovered" sufferers of eating disorders, we may be a good source of empathy and support. We encourage anyone interested in any aspect of eating problems to join our organization...