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...most of the thrust for reform has come from Governors, legislators and businessmen concerned about a shrinking pool of qualified workers. "Reform has been a sort of top-down initiative," says John Moore, chairman of the department of education at Trinity University in San Antonio. "Teachers were never brought into it." As a result, while progress was made, many reforms were misguided. In Houston, for instance, state rules requiring failing students to be tutored foundered because of problems in scheduling the sessions and the fact that many students failed to show...
...just a fraternity; it's a lifelongcommitment. As businessmen, there is a lot ofstress placed on setting role models, on loyalty,and on continuing the frat," says Schaeffer...
...YORK. For many the word connotes tall buildings and grungy streets, where traffic jams abound and businessmen juggle the fortunes of the nation...
...bear obviously disagrees. At a meeting with U.S. businessmen in Moscow, a pleased Mikhail Gorbachev said the agreement and the general relaxation of international tensions offer a "window of hope." He added, "The possibilities of finding solutions to the complicated issues engendered in the years of the cold war have become more apparent." President Reagan also applauded the agreement, and praised the "valiant struggle of the Afghan people to rid their country of foreign occupation." The two leaders will meet in Moscow on May 29, two weeks after the Soviet troop pullout is scheduled to begin, to discuss...
...that the U.S. trade deficit has become a matter of concern, businessmen and Reagan's own economic advisers are challenging the information restrictions...