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"There is a growing emphasis on making health care...more like the rest of the world," Ryan explained.

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Health Stop Opens For-Profit Center | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

Deemphasizing SATs is all to the good, but it would be a mistake to move that emphasis to the Achievement Tests.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UnSATisfactory? | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

The SAT may indeed measure a lot of intangibles, such as how much grammar and vocabulary a student gets in high school English or even what kind of conversations his family holds around the dinner table. But the Achievement Tests measure much more directly a quality the student has even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UnSATisfactory? | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

The most striking difference in the new Sears is the emphasis on apparel. Whereas in the past, customers had a choice only of Sears' own lines, they can now find national-brand merchandise as well as labels bearing the names of celebrities. In the jeans department, Levi's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sears: New Look for the Top Retailer | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

Journeying twelve miles to high school in Sterling (pop. 526), Steinkuhler played only eight-man football. Perhaps the larger emphasis on versatility in this game is what made him a faster, nimbler, smarter big man, and not just a mauler, though Steinkuhler is that too. He is gentle-spoken, all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nebraska, Plainly | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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