Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the U.S. now importing nearly half the 17.9 million bbl. of oil it consumes each day, the country needs every drop of crude it can squeeze out of the continental shelf. The Baltimore Canyon is hardly the Alaskan North Slope,* though with anywhere from 10 to 50 multistoried drilling rigs directly employing perhaps as many as 3,600 engineers, roughnecks and other workers, it may begin to look a bit like it. Even if the most optimistic guesstimates of the area's reserves (1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9.4 trillion cu. ft. of gas) are correct, exploiting...
...decade of educational expansion, almost half of all students-compared with a third in 1964-were going on to college. Suddenly the SATs, traditionally taken by an elite college-bound group, broadened to include students entering community colleges and in general those with lower grades. Thus the drop, concluded the panel, was in some degree natural. The "contributing cause," they noted, was not the new group's lower abilities but society's inability to provide educational equality...
...general, educators endorse the study's findings. "Most factors that the committee pointed to were not strictly school problems, but rather society's problems," says Will Davis, president of the National School Boards Association. For the future, Panel Chairman Wirtz could offer little solid hope. The drop in SAT scores is showing signs of leveling out, but "that is no satisfaction," says Wirtz. "The real question is whether they will go back...
There are, of course, moral qualms about the strange phenomenon of efficient but illegal industry. Professor Franco Ferrarotti, a sociologist at the University of Rome, argues that "from a social point of view, home industry is slave labor. It is obviously wrong. It would be better to drop it altogether." Yet he concedes, "It works. Black labor acts as a shock absorber enabling Italy to survive economic crises." His conclusion: "This is a very backward -and yet advanced-way of doing things...
Eugene O'Neill kept a player piano, which he had found in a whorehouse, covered with pictures of naked women, and when he could sneak away from his bossy wife Carlotta, he would go down to the basement, drop nickels into the slot and listen to ragtime. Once when Cerf was visiting, the ailing playwright crooked his finger and beckoned him downstairs, like a mischievous little boy. In the middle of a tune, Carlotta came down. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," she screamed, "bringing Bennett down here! You're in pain, remember...