Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same pragmatic approach was continued in "Education in the Junior High School Years," published in October, 1960, which was addressed specifically to educators and school administrators. Here Conant urged that the junior high school concentrate on preparing its students academically for senior high school, and that they avoid emphasis on athletic programs and pretentious graduating ceremonies...
Lecturing on the general topic of economic development, Smithies tried to avoid "giving Indians too much advice on how to run their own show." His own feeling is that India now places too much emphasis on heavy industry, and not enough on agriculture and light industry...
...Curriculums. To avoid that fate, colleges are writing new curriculums with bewildering variety. One widely held view is that "general education" needs a broadening if it aims to synthesize exploding fields of knowledge-all of which increasingly impinge on each other. Harvard's famed general education requires that courses be chosen from three major areas (humanities, natural and social sciences), and a high-level committee is busily pondering changes to give it more depth and breadth. Columbia has revamped its own pioneering (1919) general education program. Contemporary Civilization. The required sophomore part used to consist of smatterings from...
...items in which the EEC and the U.S. control 80% of world trade. Without adding in Britain, few items come under the 80% rule. The President reassured businessmen that his remaining power to reduce tariffs 50% is enough to work with. Yet neither the President nor businessmen could avoid the fact that the Common Market without Britain had suddenly become as much problem as opportunity...
...through the fields like a pair of amorous butterflies. But the next day, when she takes off for town to buy some groceries, he stops her by main force. And a little while later, when the postman rings, he hides in the bedroom till the fellow goes away. "To avoid gossip," he explains a little too anxiously, and she accepts his explanation. But about the same time she discovers that her loaded gun is missing, and that night she sees on his arm a peculiar scar that could belong only to one man: the quisling, now a fugitive, who supervised...