Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the teacher might have taught her class, had they been willing to listen, is that American education in the '70s is in deep trouble. And almost by definition, any problem with public education is a big one. No where are the difficulties more acute than in the 25,300 public high schools, junior and senior, in the U.S., which enroll 19 million stu dents and carry a million teachers on their payrolls. To maintain the U.S.'s vast public education establishment, from elementary schools to colleges, taxpayers will spend $144 billion this year ? a 152% increase over...
...five nights a week to save money for college, is taking English Lab, a brush-up grammar course, in addition to regular college prep courses. "Grammar?I just can't do it," he confesses. "Somewhere along the line, somebody screwed up." Classmate Jim Jordahl is also taking English Lab. "Deep down, most people feel that requirements should be stricter," he says. "If you leave what courses you take up to the school, you won't be that well...
Britain's biggest automaker is still deep in trouble, but a new boss and a turn toward moderation by its fractious workers are strengthening its chances to stay in business. When the Labor government reluctantly agreed to take over nearly bankrupt British Leyland Motor Corp. in 1975, it publicly warned the maker of Jaguar, Morris, Triumph and Rover cars that it would not throw good money after bad. The price of government cash for new-car development and badly overdue plant modernization was to be an end to the constant bickering that has pitted unions against management and against...
...decree that would alter Christian history. A Pope, they declared, is infallible when he defines doctrines of faith or morals ex cathedra (from his throne) and such dicta are "irreformable" and require no "consent of the church." The bishops' lopsided 533-to-2 vote that day masked a deep division in the council and throughout the church. The immediate repercussions included the schism of "Old Catholics" and a wave of antichurch laws in Germany. Though scholars differ over where infallibility applies, the power has been invoked explicitly only once: in the 1950 declaration that Mary was assumed bodily into...
Take the second quarter of the Crimson's loss. A storming contingent of Crimson rushers blocked a punt deep in Yale territory, pouncing en masse onto the pigskin at the Yale goal line...