Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being nurtured to near its fullest extent. Jeffrey Schille, a staff member of the National Institute of Education, says, "We have made a big turnaround in teaching the most basic skills to the lowest quartile of kids. But in raising the floor, we have at least kept the ceiling constant." Clifford Adelman, an analyst for the National Commission on Excellence in Education, finds that "all our expectations are phrased in terms of minimums. By focusing on the lowest common denominator, we are killing the kids in the middle. Nothing drives them to perform better...
...Roxbury section of Boston, Wednesday, September 21, 1981. Nine days before the D.C. conference, just outside Dudley Station, a small card table was set up. It was late afternoon, the sky was overcast and a strong wind kept blowing the "Register to Vote" sign over the table. Nevertheless, a constant stream of people all Black crowded around to sign up. As the subways screeched on the tracks overhead. Russell Williams, a Boston coordinator of Operation Big Vote, briefly interrogated each person: "Have you ever registered before?" "Where do you live?" "Do you want to be registered as a Democrat...
...modern times. As such it remains a nightmarish symbol of a problem that has become perhaps the most persistent one haunting modern economies. Though the chronic inflations that bedevil the industrial West have never spiraled so totally out of control, the German mega-inflation nonetheless serves as a constant warning...
...mysterious as why the World War chanced to begin on Aug. 4, 1914. Vital point is the undermining of popular confidence that ended in the crash. The September slump was of tremendous importance in its indication that a Market which could survive only by constant rises had reached the limits of its climb. Slowly the Market began to realize that 1929 might be an abnormal year, a high-water year instead of one more level in a still-rising tide. If this fear were well founded, what then of 1930, or 1931, of even more distant times...
...movie, which will open in New York City on Feb. 1, is already a sensation and a scandal in Europe. It has been called a work of "constant beauty"; a piece of "talented debauchery that often makes you want to vomit" as well as an "authentic moral and psychological Apocalypse." It will affirm the resurgence of one of the great talents of the age, one who had seemed, through the 1960s, to be erratically and sometimes disastrously in decline: Marlon Brando. Brando is already being touted as an Academy Award contender for his role in last year...