Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years old and the leader of all he surveys, yet for a moment last week George Bush looked like a schoolboy called before the principal to discuss his report card. Perched nervously on a beige sofa in Ronald Reagan's Los Angeles office, Bush held the tip of his tongue between his lips, smiling thinly as the old President blandly pronounced that the new President is "doing just fine...
...like any press credential, the cards also pose a potential threat to press freedom: if their use becomes required, they could become de facto licenses that would give the A.J.A. the power to determine who can report in the occupied territories. Until some foreign reporters complained recently, Israeli citizens working for overseas news organizations were not eligible for the A.J.A. card. Local Israeli reporters are still barred...
...many of America's culinary colleges, where students pay as much as $19,000 for intense two-year courses, working in school-owned restaurants is required for graduation. Students may be taught everything from the psychology of hiring waiters to how to fold napkins or operate credit-card machines. But any would-be chef faces the final test preparing and serving food. The New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vt., has set up one of its restaurants, Tubbs, in a remodeled jail. Says co-founder John Dranow: "We've been influenced by the medical-school model. Students learn better...
Schools contribute to the problem. Often a disastrous report card is the first signal parents have that Johnny or Mary has been sailing too close to the academic shoals. Education specialists say that parents should receive progress notes throughout the year, and that report cards should praise a child's strengths and indicate a plan for dealing with weaknesses...
Child-welfare groups and educators in several areas are mounting public- education campaigns aimed at stopping the "report-card reflex." The programs, modeled after one begun in Houston by the Child Abuse Prevention Council, use newspaper ads, TV and radio announcements, school flyers mailed to students' homes and brochures inserted into report cards. All these materials contain the same basic message for parents: raising voices or fists is not the answer to raising grades...