Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ideal problem should be solvable in itself, requiring only a minimal background. Solving a problem about a home runs is difficult if one cannot picture a home run in the first place. It requires a familiarity with the game of baseball-- in other words, an American cultural background...
Requiring a cultural background as part of the minimal background introduces a cultural bias. Granted, this cultural bias is merely a perverse effect of an otherwise well-intended effort to make problems easier to understand, and this is not to say that professors shouldn't continue these efforts...
...they should also remember that a minimal background should not be biased towards one culture or another. Baseball is not the only thing on Earth that obeys the laws of gravity...
...accepting contributions exceeding $100 from any person or political action committee (PAC). This change would break the grip of PACs on campaign financing and free candidates from the distraction of fundraising. It would also ensure that qualified candidates are able to run for office regardless of their own economic background. Hopefully, this will enable candidates to be judged on their ideas, not on the commercials they are able to afford...
...that included a year's salary, a full pension worth one-third of his salary and a guarantee of continued corporate-paid medical benefits for himself and his wife Judith, Weinstein went to the Teaneck, N.J., campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University for a teaching certificate. With a background in math and science, a longtime interest in teaching and a desire to spend more time with his wife and seven-year-old daughter Susan, Weinstein took a big pay cut--from $100,000 to $35,000 annually--to pursue his new career. "I now have the schedule and hours available...