Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business, said Galbraith, has freed itself from a lot besides marketplace chance-taking. For one thing, owners can rarely bother the managers. Ownership is so broad that the individual stockholder is a "passive and functionless figure." Even bankers can be held at arm's length, because corporations, to an ever-increasing degree, can finance themselves through retained earnings...
While the U.S. sells its wheat for rupees, which cannot be converted to dollars, other Western wheat-producing nations have shown a natural preference for sales to Communist bloc countries and China for hard currencies. Now - as if in response to the broad hints from the U.S. - Canada and Australia have promised to sell substantial amounts to India next year. Last week even the Soviet Union, itself an importer of some grains, announced an outright donation of 200,000 tons of wheat...
Last week their isolation abruptly ended. Wearing a broad smile and a television-blue shirt, Party Secretary-General Waldeck Rochet told a crowded news conference that the Communists had just signed an agreement to collaborate with two major non-Communist parties-the Socialists and Radicals -and a group of small but highly influential leftist "political clubs." Seated quietly beside Rochet, in a grand display of their new-found unity, were Socialist Party Secretary-General Guy Mollet and François Mitterrand, president of the powerful Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left...
...normal high school curriculum is a daily kaleidoscope of unrelated courses: a class in English, perhaps followed by history, civics and then the arts, each session unrelated to the other. Emulating liberal arts colleges and the better prep schools, some public high schools are now offering broad-scale courses in humanities that seek to relate these disciplines, and to show their relevance to the kind of decisions students must make in their own lives...
...teachers used to rigid lesson plans, broad-gauge humanities courses are hard to teach. Parents, too, sometimes wonder about the merit of programs that are not designed to prepare students for conquering the dry, factual state Regents exams. But educators believe that in the long run such courses help students establish values and concepts that will hold good throughout their lives. "The goal is discovery," says J. William Dodd, assistant to the Garden City superintendent. "We want to present issues and problems and let the kids solve them by themselves...