Word: digitals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...earth, or rather in earth?' I wittily enquired. 'Because of Bocuse,' they explained. 'In the gospel according to St. Paul, on page 258 of his newe book-the great French chef relays the recipe of his grandpere, to wit: bury the bird for two full days before the feast. Digit...
...Dengler each digit has an ingenious symbolic significance. One means, "I am part of the whole of life, which is one." Fair enough. But the others are more esoteric. Nine, for example, "stands for relationship to essence in the difference in the meaning when actualizing the spatially everpresent nature of life...
...First National Bank could not believe its calculating machines. Precisely $1 million in $50 and $100 bills was missing from one of the bank's subterranean vaults, and auditors kept combing the records to see if a bookkeeper had erred or a computer had skipped a digit. Finally, with much embarrassment, the bankers called the FBI to report that someone had made off with their greenbacks over the long, languid Columbus Day weekend...
With soaring costs and double-digit truancy, increasing illiteracy and steadily falling Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, many American high schools are clearly in trouble. This week's cover story examines the plight of U.S. secondary education today and profiles three high schools not burdened with the special, severe social problems of the inner cities...
Mounting absenteeism. According to the Washington-based National Association of Secondary School Principals, absenteeism is now the worst problem facing teachers, ahead of poor motivation, lack of discipline, vandalism, tardiness and drug use. In Florida's Dade County (Miami), school officials trying to cut double-digit truancy rates in low-income areas have been experimenting?rather successfully?with luring kids to class with free hamburgers, Frisbees, T shirts and yo-yos donated by local businessmen. After a decade of stormy debate, there is no consensus about how schools can right the wrongs. Conservative back to basics" forces rail that...