Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some argue that the decline in English standards results from the increase of mass education and from open-admissions programs-although to argue against ever widening opportunity of education is to confront one of the most cherished goals of the American ideal. In any case, teachers all along the line must play a frantic kind of catchup. Colleges blame high school teachers for sending them students who cannot read or write properly; high school teachers blame the schools below; and, with reason, nearly everybody blames the families from which the children come...
Externally, the advanced capitalist societies confront a preindustrial world full of suspicion of "economic imperialism" and eager
...decisions are left up to the majority, with guards and prisoners entitled to one vote each. "They're the ones who have to decide what to do about the smelly kitchen when the garbage isn't taken out," says Director Joseph Hickey. "They are learning that you have to confront a problem, that life is painful and that you have to deal with it." Hickey claims: "I don't do this to reform inmates. I do it to reform the system...
TIME'S valuable story on the aged points out that stiffer regulations and better enforcement of existing laws are one way to improve the quality of care for nursing-home residents. I support these moves. But I think we must also confront a more fundamental question: Will any amount of regulation make a difference in a field dominated by those whose primary motivation is maximum profits...
...shock to my Western values," Woodside recalls. "I was forced to confront a totally different civilization for the first time, and I found it very stimulating." He found some encouragement to study China in the Cold War tensions between China and the United States that also affected relations between China and his native Canada. But mostly, he was drawn to Asian studies by scholarly exhilaration with the unknown. "It's very exciting to be thoroughly interested in a subject and have it dominate your thoughts and concerns all the time," he says. "It is one of the best things that...