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Word: emphasisation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Jimmy Carter is party of the Kennedy-etc. conspiracy, the party claims, the only hope--since Lyndon LaRouche, the Labor Party's presidential candidate no longer expects to win--is that President Ford will be guided by midwestern businessmen, who understand the need for an international debt moratorium and...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Gene McCarthy and Lester Maddox Battle the Heavies | 11/2/1976 | See Source »

Carter: The Democratic challenger raises no dramatic objections to the basics of the Ford foreign policy. Carter approves of detente (and he does not shy away from the word), the normalization of relations with China and the attempts to achieve peace in the Middle East and to avoid bloodshed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: HOW THEY STAND ON THE OTHER ISSUES | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

Look what activity in political campaigns can do for you, one article tells us. You can be rich and famous (and without losing your femininity), another counsels. Considering this emphasis on individual benefit, it's entirely appropriate that the listing of events speaches and general information is call the "connections...

Author: By Pooh Shapiro, | Title: PULP | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

IN JANUARY, 1970, Bowdoin College announced that it no longer required Scholastic Aptitude Test and Achievement Test scores from applicants for admission. The decision was widely understood to be one college's reaction against the dangerously heavy emphasis placed upon standardized tests in admissions offices throughout the country and few...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: Warped Standards | 10/27/1976 | See Source »

Few people realize how far-reaching are the effects of the current emphasis on multiple-choice tests. These tests have become the dominant factor in educational research; they furnish the yardstick--indeed the very definition--of "progress."

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: Warped Standards | 10/27/1976 | See Source »

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