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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tennessee--One of the few incumbents facing a serious challenge, Republican Senator William Brock has encountered problems chiefly because of his campaign style. Brock's stuffy and aloof manner apparently suffers in a comparison with the folksy, at-east styles of his fellow Senator, Republican Howard Baker, and his Democratic opponent, James Sasser. Sasser banks his hopes for election on the lack of enthusiasm for Brock and on the coattails of Jimmy Carter, which are expected to be long through out the South...
With the possible exception of the economy, voters have viewed the 1976 presidential campaign as essentially an examination of character. Easily lost in the weeks of personality analysis, rhetoric and misadventure have been the candidates' positions on specific subjects of national concern. Here is a comparison of their views on seven vital topics...
...course it is possible that the size of the American educational system and the need for a standard measure of comparison necessitate some form of standardized testing (though whether it should be centralized, and so all-pervasive, is another question). But where the tendency to overemphasize and abuse test scores is so strong, the issues of test reliability, bias, validity and misinterpretation are critical. ETS, being accountable only to its board of trustees (who elect their own successors), has rarely been eager to get involved in making sure that the scores from its tests are used properly. Although proposals...
...strike also has important economic ramifications locally. In comparison with other Cambridge factories, a significantly large proportion of Cambion workers are Cambridge residents. Local unemployment as a result of the strike is detrimental to local economy. And if management relocates production out of state, as it has said it might, Massachusetts--with its already high unemployment and flagging economy--will suffer even more...
Among the J N.R.'s 256 separate rail lines, only the bullet trains and two of Tokyo's urban services turn profits. The rest lose money at a rate that makes the old Penn Central's losses trivial by comparison. One example: the Biko line, which serves a sparsely populated area on the island of Hokkaido, has outlays of $11 for every 34? it earns. In the past twelve years, the Japanese National Railway has piled up a staggering debt of $34 billion; at present it is losing money at the rate of $8.6 million...