Word: blind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Office of Education regulations, the term handicapped includes not only the blind and the deaf, but victims of crippling diseases and of emotional disorders. Naturally, some parents of unhandicapped students worry that the overall quality of education will suffer from this new kind of integration. For their part, many educators fret about the high costs entailed in training teachers to deal with the handicapped. Both the Trotter and Keefe schools, for instance, can provide the handicapped with special aids that many schools in Massachusetts, and elsewhere in the country, cannot afford...
...Just under 500,000 signatures are needed; the organization fell only 1,427 short of collecting that many earlier this year. In Washington, D.C., where assessments have jumped 75% in the past four years, furious homeowners forced the city council in July to pass acts that exempt the aged, blind and disabled from some of the increases, and to lop $6,000 off the assessed value of every single-family house. In the upstate New York hamlet of Hardenburgh, residents have dodged the assessor by joining a California mail-order outfit called the "Universal Life Church" and declaring their homes...
...Daniel tells his ex-wife's sister, a woman he once loved and now loves again: "I don't know how people like us were meant to live this age, Jane. When it gives you only two alternatives...feel deprived or feel guilty. Play liberal or play blind. It seems to me that either way we're barred from living life as it was meant...
...outdone by ABC's partnership with John Ehrlichman, CBS will create its own docu-drama based on Watergater John Dean's Blind Ambition. Event-loving NBC plans almost as many of these high-budget miniseries as its network rivals combined. Among them: 79 Park Avenue by Harold Robbins, Arthur Hailey's Wheels, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan, plus a biography of Martin Luther King...
Sociobiology may apply to ants, but your article reveals it as just another pop simplification when it is extended to people. Rational theories of human behavior have to be flexible enough to account for both a Stevie Wonder, able to triumph over being blind as well as black, and a Patty Hearst, so much a creature of her environment that she seems to have no genes...