Word: english
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, is only as far as you can see. Richard once was an Air Traffic Controller for the American army. Then he was a farmer. And now he's one of the 66,000 refugees awaiting resettlement in a foreign country. "Any foreign country," says Richard in near-perfect English. "But I like to go the United States...
White House Years has stirred extraordinary worldwide interest. In serialization or book form, it will appear in 17 languages* besides English. Eventually, hundreds of foreign publications will carry excerpts. There will be French and English versions in Canada, and Chinese versions not only in Taipei and Hong Kong, but also in San Francisco...
...major tests used by schools, employers and the armed forces are very accurate in predicting future success or failure for native-born English-speaking Americans...
Heads of larger departments such as Economics, History and English say they knew of the legislation--designed to increase student-faculty contact--but few knew how and if the reforms would effect their departments...
...Yellow Sweeting, introduced around 1640 by a clergyman, William Blaxton, at what is now the corner of Charles and Beacon streets in Boston. One variety of the handsome blue lobelia was prized by the Indians as a cure for syphilis - and bought for a pretty price by a gullible English nobleman. The colonizers were more astute about Solidago, or goldenrod, that "humble and glorious" wildflower, which they took home and improved and now sell back to Americans for fancy sums. Indeed, argues White, goldenrod, which has 54 native species and grows in every state of the Union, should be adopted...