Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immune to the disheartening tantrums of the economic weather. A few areas may look better off in certain statistics, but none can boast of an affluence quite like Washington's. It is effortless, persisting, secure. True, in the 71% black District of Columbia, poverty persists, along with the core city's reputation for street crime. Even so, black unemployment in D.C. is a third less than the U.S. average...
Stagflation contributes to high unemployment; many economists are seeking new ways of coping with the hard-core aspects of that problem, which is concentrated among the often unskilled young, blacks and Hispanics, and housewives seeking to supplement their families' incomes. In his budget proposal, President Carter asked for $400 million in grants to firms that hire and train unskilled people, mainly in the 18-to-24 age bracket. Even conservative business leaders have told the President that the sum is too small to make much impact...
...members say they are looking for a happy medium between the current General Education program and the proposed core curriculum. Backers of the ERG proposal say a by-pass option would reduce enrollment in core classes and provide a greater choice of courses...
...council members, however apparently believe the by-pass would in the words of a Faculty member of CUE, "dilute the concept of the core." The council also split hairs over "student membership" and "student input" into the core subcommittees. Presumably, the latter is fine; but the idea of having official student committee members appears to be dead, at least for the time being...
Even without student representation on the subcommittee, the council appears to be in for a few problems. Faculty members have expressed concern over the development of the proposed core courses along what many say are the abstract guidelines presented in the core curriculum...