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Many power-generating companies would switch from oil to coal if the U.S. removed the need for expensive scrubbers on plants that use low-sulfur Western coal. The U.S. also has to dig more coal mines (including strip mines), build more and safer nuclear plants, construct more oil refineries, drill more offshore wells, develop more oil shale projects. All of these will require some trade-offs with antipollution laws, and none of the projects can be accomplished if small groups of zealots set out to block them while OPEC's new Midases sit back and applaud...
...children decide to marry. The newlyweds (Penny Peyser and Michael Lembeck) are upstanding graduates of Mount Holyoke and Yale; the dads are students of Groucho and Chico. Sheldon Kornpett (Arkin) is a very nervous man who delights in being "among the first dentists in New York to use the drill that spritzes water." Vince Ricardo (Falk) claims to have dreamed up the Bay of Pigs invasion. Sheldon wonders if Vince might be nuts, but Vince has proof of his most famous exploit: an autographed portrait of J.F.K. with the inscription, "At least we tried...
...innate ability, not learned skills. In practice, however, more students each year desperately cram for the S.A.T.s. A third of public and private schools in the Northeast now offer some sort of S.A.T. preparation course. Elsewhere around the country, thousands of nervous scholars flock to commercial coaching schools, which drill and review them-and woo them with promises of striking results...
...them (Kaplan's) was found effective. Nonetheless, the Educational Testing Service, which actually administers the tests, grudgingly admitted that "some students on some occasions may have increased their scores after attending some coaching courses." It was one more retreat from a mid-1960s position that "intensive drill is at best likely to yield insignificant increases in scores...
...Well back-to-basics is such an elusive and ambiguous term that I certainly wouldn't want to say that's all it is. I think to most people, back-to-basics connotes a kind of remedial education, or a kind of drill on the fundamentals. I don't think that's a very good description of what the Core is trying to do. What the Core is attempting to do is to define the most important elements of the liberal education, the most important intellectual skills and the most important ways and methods of apprehending the important areas...