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Rinker well knows that English teaching can be impossibly hard. The "normal" high school teaching load is 125 to 150 pupils a day. If a teacher assigns 125 pupils one 500-word essay a week, allowing 15 minutes apiece to correct them, he faces more than 30 hours of extra work. (One result is that some teachers assign no essays, and high schools are graduating students who never wrote a single composition in four years.) Nonetheless, Rinker thinks that the deeper problem is simply incompetence; few teachers, for example, read enough, and many cannot write with style and clarity...
...coffee is the biggest commodity in world trade. With overproduction and massive stockpiles threatening to collapse coffee prices, delegates agreed that something had to be done. Under the prodding of the U.S. delegation, they finally reached an agreement last week to establish a worldwide Coffee Council, which will assign tight export quotas to producing nations based on their current level of exports. But the quotas will be revised as the demand for various types of coffee fluctuates-a victory for the Africans...
...church-sponsored groups, the custom has been to demand a "founder's fee," which means the tenant has to pay a proportionate share of the building cost of the entire project. In some cases, he also has to agree to remain in the project for life, and to assign the community all personal assets in exchange for permanent care until death (many oldsters find this humiliating and restrictive of their freedom of choice...
...student to exhibit his skill in relating Furthermore, examinations put on memory and glibness, evaluation of a student should chiefly upon standards of , clarity, and perceptiveness-- which one hopes to find among adults. As one instructor put it, taking examinations is an activity to students. When you assign you treat the student like...
...future purchases of anhydrous ammonia, plus $225,000 to enable Estes to get started in the grain-storage business. Estes, now into Commercial Solvents for $900,000, promised to pay off the debt in installments over a five-year span. As part of the overall deal, Estes agreed to assign to Commercial Solvents 100% of the fees he got for storing grain...