Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although neither side is willing to reveal all the details of specific proposals, they seem to be moving toward an agreement to establish a formal training program for helpers, perhaps one including not only job-skill training, but also any reading, math, or other basic skill training needed by workers...
...Administration more excuse to pressure Congress for increased military spending. This is not, one must hope, a conscious motive. The government may actually be working for some limit, formal or informal, to the increase of ABMs. The ABM system is threatening to become enormously expensive. Quite apart from the basic cost of the new weapons. The deterrence principle requires sufficient "ABM-indestructible" weapons to penetrate ABM defenses...
STRIKES. The current walkout by 147,000 General Electric workers is only a foretaste of the acrimonious labor struggles that loom in the immediate future. Next year will be clotted with labor negotiations. Contracts covering some 4,000,000 workers in such basic industries as railroads, trucking, autos, construction, rubber and meat packing will expire in 1970. Unionists will press strongly for wage gains to keep ahead of inflation. Caught in a profit squeeze, management is likely to resist with equal vigor...
After Calkins had made his initial statement, several of his 20 or more listeners engaged him in a debate concerning the basic principles underlying American foreign policy choices...
Varsity soccer coach Bruce Munro calls Getch "the most conscientious freshman soccer coach that I know of. His strongest point is that he is an excellent teacher as far as basic skills...