Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report's central thesis is that "Harvard education has failed to recognize or to assess the implications of the basic problem of teacher-centered versus student-oriented education. It is the difference between viewing a college as an institution in which teachers teach as opposed to one in which students learn...
...chapter titled "General Education--A Complete Answer?," the report criticizes the Administration for concentrating too much on the content of GE and other courses. Instead the College must come to "reconsider the more basic questions of personnel and incentives to actual learning...
...style colonial imperialism is dead as an instrument of development. Capitalism must shoulder what President Harry Truman called a "bold new program." Specific examples of what capitalist enterprise can do were given by Nelson Rockefeller, president of the International Basic Economy Corp., a business with the avowed purpose of raising living standards through the use of American know-how in backward areas. The audience sat fascinated as he told how the corporation saved Brazil $100 million a year by spraying coffee plantations with an insecticide, killing an African pest called broca. With obvious pride in American resourcefulness, he gleefully described...
...there was no question that the shakeout of inflated prices was spreading and that consumers had tightened up their spending. In addition to cuts in the price of whisky and Ford cars (see below), there were reductions in many basic products, such as lead, zinc, copper, tallow. In its new midseason catalogue, Sears, Roebuck listed many prices anywhere from 10% to 50% cheaper than in its January book...
...Brazilian cities, posters proclaim: "He will return." Below the legend is a price list showing that rice, beans and other basic necessities of Brazilian life now cost twice what they did in Getulio's time. Getulio himself has made no move. Yet he is so widely discussed for the 1950 presidential elections that most political maneuvers in Brazil lately have had one theme: stop Getulio. To further that end by bolstering his own sagging prestige, President Eurico Caspar Dutra recently announced plans for a visit...