Word: dis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English loathe some de Gaulle-Adenauer policies," Hoffman emphasized, "but they must weigh the political dis-advantages with the economic advantages in deciding whether or not to join...
...President talks long and candidly about U.S. problems at home and abroad; he knows that they are there, and he knows that they are not going to dis appear overnight. He is optimistic about the U.S. economy in 1962, but disturbed about its longer-term future (see following story). He is perhaps too sanguine about the legislative prospects for his programs; he seems confident that his proposals for foreign trade, medical care for the aged, agriculture and tax revision will pass Congress without substantial change. As long ago as October, he had essentially decided that the U.S. would have...
What makes the question of local control a current subject of U.S. debate is a growing gap between the have and have-not schools, widened by the financial dis parity between school systems and com pounded by a national shortage of skilled manpower. To some critics, the situation cries out for a "national curriculum" to equalize schools. Loud among them is Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who calls local control "the greatest obstacle to school reform." Says Rickover in a tendentiously titled new book, Swiss Schools and Ours: Why Theirs Are Better (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95): "I know of no country...
...curtain sees the son's friend trailing the parents on his murderous mission. Playwright Archibald is wise enough to know that parents are loved and hated because they are parents and not necessarily for what they do and do not do, but he cannot achieve the emotional dis tance from his subject to move his son and daughter characters past love and hate to understanding...
...desperation, dial the number. A voice answers: "Hallo. Joe's Tavern." Ask if John Smith is in. The voice replies: "John who?" Say Smith. "You musta got da wrong numbah, buddy. Dis...