Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often the Secretary seems politically naive. In January, after testifying before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, Cavazos asked if he could stay and hear the other witnesses. Congressional veterans were stunned. Said a committee staffer: "It looked as if he had nothing better to do than sit and listen to people read statements." Cavazos is also handicapped by his lack of familiarity with elementary- and secondary- education issues. In April, for example, he incorrectly told reporters that Minnesota provides transportation across district lines as part of its "choice" plan, which will soon allow parents to select schools...
...education expert from the Brookings Institution, made it known that he was in line for a White House post that would allow him to serve as a "counterpoint to the Education Department," Cavazos persuaded White House chief of staff John Sununu to quash the appointment. The country would be better served if Cavazos applied that kind of assertiveness to doing his job, not just keeping...
...have captured everyone's imagination in the belief that the cold war is over, and what is actually being done. For example, Mikhail Gorbachev talks about withdrawing 10,000 tanks, but Soviet tank production is very high. They're now producing about 3,000 tanks a year -- far better tanks, by the way, than anything they are talking about removing. Consider what just this one indicator means. They say, and I agree after having studied it, that it will take them about two years to pull back the 10,000 tanks in an orderly fashion. By then they will have...
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...team fared no better, dropping a 2-1 decision. The Crimson had to win the game to keep its hopes of an NCAA bid alive. But Doug MacGinnitie scored the game-winner late in the second half. No NCAA bid for the team many had tabbed as the favorite to win the national championship...