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Like most teachers she decries the loss of public support for the profession. "It is vital that we all understand how things have changed: the role of the teacher, the school, the church, the family. It does no good to isolate schools as the culprit when there are social changes that affect other institutions as well. Until we all realize that education is a reciprocal thing, we won't have understood much...
...culprit of the crunch is clearly the Federal Reserve's credit squeeze. Would-be house buyers are now finding it difficult to obtain money to borrow, and when they do, the rates are high enough to make any bail bondsman blush. The nation's average mortgage rate today is an astronomical 17%, vs. 11% late last year and 9% in 1977. Last November a family buying a $100,000 house would have needed an income of $36,500 to qualify for the normal $80,000 mortgage, and faced monthly payments of $761. Today, obtaining a mortgage for that...
...cleanser used in the food ovens or even cosmetics. But why only Eastern? And why only a few episodes on the carrier's other routes? And how come no passengers or pilots were involved in the 170 reports of the so-called red sweat? Last week the culprit was discovered. It turned out to be just flecks of red ink from the words DEMO ONLY that were stenciled on new life jackets Eastern uses to show emergency procedures. When the attendants put the jackets on or took them off, bits of ink flaked off, flecking their skin and sometimes...
...most plausible culprit was initially thought to be South Africa. Pretoria denied the charge, as well as a subsequent rumor that the South Africans had been testing a tactical weapon for their fleet of Israeli-designed missile boats. Last week CBS News reported another possibility: the light burst had been caused by an Israeli nuclear test conducted with the "help and cooperation" of South Africa. The report, which was based on an unpublished book by two Israeli former journalists, was immediately dismissed by Jerusalem as "complete nonsense" and by Pretoria as "ridiculous." Washington said it had no evidence either...
...Friedkin's unjustifiable massacre of sensibility reels on Ted, Pacino's neighbor, is murdered and while all clues point to Ted's jealous roommate as the culprit, Friedkin knows better. In an ambiguous series of elliptical shots, the director hints that Pacino has butchered Ted in a bizarre exorcism of his homosexual passion. Like the priests who die to save Regan in Friedkin's last sensationalist film, Ted dies to save Pacino's heterosexual soul...