Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other Paul's parents were divorced some years ago. "I wish I had had a group like this then. My sister and I were the ones who stopped the rights. Now I get along with my stepmother better than my father. She's a lot younger." Lorraine exclaims, "Oh, that's excellent. She remembers what it's like to be young." His father, Paul reports, is "sliding toward middle age, about...
Welcome as they are, warm words alone will not satisfy the vets. Various groups, such as the Ad Hoc Committee of Viet Nam Veterans, are organizing to fight harder for better education benefits, job training, health and readjustment programs. Muller, who is executive director of the Council of Viet Nam Veterans and the emerging spokesman for the movement, wants vets in more key Government positions. He notes that "only five of the 700 'policy' posts filled by Carter have gone to Vietvets." There is also growing concern in the Government about veterans' allegations that Agent Orange...
...other city planners, including nearly all members of Harvard's department, defend Harvard's program as innovative and better-suited to the current job market. In a letter to The Crimson, 20 department members state that the history of planning is one of resistance to change. "The true issue is whether universities can develop innovative curricula without being harassed by narrow traditional interests within a profession," the letter said...
...Health would become a loudspeaker for the American Medical Association. Both Albert Shanker, president of the AFT, and Bok, despite their diverging motivations, suggest an internal reorganization of the massive HEW machinery along the lines of the Pentagon's five services. Bok says he would hate to see "a better structured organization within a very strong department (i.e., HEW) replaced by a Cabinet secretary in a really weak department...
...establishing the Department of Education to the White House. But Carter must do more than sign the bill, take his bows and verbally grant education a new lease on life. If the legislation's proponents think the battle to establish the department has been long and hard, they had better remember that their fight has only just begun