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...world's most popular soda, it failed to foresee the sheer frustration and fury that the news would create. From Bangor to Burbank, from Detroit to Dallas, tens of thousands of Coke lovers rose up as one to revile the suddenly sweeter taste of their favorite beverage and demand old Coke back...
...bell rings for the new term, California needs a total of some 16,500 additional elementary and secondary teachers, a number that Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig believes will jump to about 110,000 by 1991. Conservative predictions from the National Center for Education Statistics put the countrywide demand at slightly over 200,000 new teachers in 1991, with a shortfall in supply of only 66,000 (see chart). But Mary Hatwood Futrell, president of the National Education Association, says, "By the 1990s we may need a million new teachers...
...temporary boost from the ending of the miners' strike. He expects the expansion to taper off to 2.25% next year. Brittan noted that the slowdown in the U.S. has not seriously affected West European growth so far because it has limited American output but not demand for products supplied by the rest of the world...
...disinformation. Middle-class women of the 18th century, she writes, got pregnant easily because they were inactive. Regarbling an already muddled item from Ms. magazine, she says that President Carter wanted to send female soldiers into Afghanistan, and that the Afghan rebellion occurred partly because of the Soviet demand that women be allowed to read, write and attend village meetings. China and the Soviet Union are listed as the world leaders in allowing women to fulfill themselves...
...Africa. They are afraid of being wiped out. But by their very size (4.9 million) and power, they can control the pace of black advance in a way that vastly smaller white minorities could not do elsewhere in Africa. In discussions of power sharing, they have the strength to demand a federal or confederal system in which their rights would be assured...