Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both subscribe to a basic liberal checklist of views, supporting minority, elderly and women's rights, opposing capital punishment and nuclear power. Each calls the other a hypocrite on all of the above issues...
...dismissed any notion that elementary schools are menaced by "a rising tide of mediocrity," the much publicized phrase used in A Nation at Risk, a 1983 report on American high schools by a panel appointed by his predecessor, T.H. Bell. Bennett contended that primary schoolchildren are "getting better at basic skills" like reading, writing and arithmetic. But, he maintained, "when asked to begin applying these skills to the acquisition of more complex knowledge, usually around fourth grade, many begin to falter," in part because of growing distractions outside school...
Indeed, the flurry of activity and proposals in the past few months threatens to obscure the most basic fact about drug use in America: border patrols, police raids and even random urinalysis are unlikely to have a lasting impact as long as there remains a demand for drugs and a general social tolerance of their use. A true change can come only if Americans are willing to say clearly -- to their workmates and schoolmates, to their neighbors and friends, to their communities and to themselves -- that drug use is not acceptable. If that is, in fact, one result...
...family living and we simply plowed everything back to the farm. Out of it all, we raised two very special girls -- not extremely beautiful or extremely intellectual, but attractive and smart -- pretty stable, and altogether satisfactory. Through work-study programs, loans and scholarships, they both acquired a fairly good basic education. One teaches, the other is a health educator with our local health department. Both have apparently solid and satisfactory marriages. The older one has two little girls, the younger has a new little daughter...
...conferees were unable to agree on even so basic a question as how many human lives the Chernobyl accident may claim. Morris Rosen, director of nuclear safety for IAEA, and Dan Beninson, chairman of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, initially predicted that radiation from the disaster would cause as many as 24,000 cancer deaths over the next 70 years. They later reduced their estimate by more than half after further studying the Soviet data. The revision stirred charges that the scientists were bowing to the nuclear power industry. Thomas Cochran, senior scientist at the New York City-based...