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...current plans specify that GW must furnish facilities such as classrooms, offices, and drill locations, while the Navy will end instructors and officers...
Even when poor rural and inner-city schools elect to spend their limited funds on computers, the teachers are often inadequately prepared. Pressured to improve basic skills quickly, they take the most direct route, using computers as electronic flash cards for simple drill and practice. By contrast, specially trained teachers at more sophisticated schools are introducing ever younger children to the art of programming. In Georgia's affluent De Kalb County, 445 teachers a year take four-hour instruction sessions one night a week. Says Frank Barber, the training coordinator: "We believe the nicest thing that can happen...
When not embracing. Dan and Francine play tarot or talk about China, about Francine's Chinese roommate, who would have nightmares when left alone overnight. Eddy tells me about West Germany, about the East German soldiers woken to drill for attack every night until they say, "I wish we could wipe them out so we could get some sleep." We place bets on whether the Chinese scientist traveling with his colleagues to a conference in Yugoslavia will change out of his pajamas before we reach Moscow...
...discouraged producers from holding down their costs. The rules identify some 28 categories of gas, as well as price ceilings that vary widely. In general, the newer a gas well is and the deeper it is, the more money a producer can charge. Naturally, producers have an incentive to drill new and expensive deep wells rather than sell cheaper gas from existing fields...
...Lords of Discipline, Keith is back in uniform again, as a cadet at a Southern military academy. He gets the girl-Sophie Ward, 17-and by now has got military technique down permanently. "After all these movies," says Keith, "I've at least learned how to drill a platoon...