Word: enoughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slimy to say a thing like that." "It's true," replied McCuistion, whereupon the other three prisoners chimed in to ask why Consuls Byrne or Donald Eddy had not come to talk with them during the past four weeks. Replied Consul Byrne: the U.S. military establishments are big enough to take care of four sergeants...
...core that it has today. Its hot, fluid inside material could circulate unhampered in a single "cell," rising to the surface on one side of the sphere and sinking down on the opposite side after cooling by radiation into space and getting heavier. When this had gone on long enough, all the light rock on the earth's surface was gathered in one hemisphere as a single "ur-continent...
...have only one object-to kick off the new models with as much razzmatazz as $500,000 can buy. Four cars, manned by formation-driving chorus boys, run through an elephantine ballet as chorus girls dance an accompaniment on foot and on roller skates. And the songs are enough to make even Tin Pan Alley blush: / Could Have Danced All Night comes out: "Electra too, with colors new and thrilling-the richest fabrics you can see ..." The sell is so hard that it gongs like boiler plate. But it gets results. Salesmen and their quarry pack the house...
...attack the teacher shortage, the Ford Foundation has spent another $15.6 million on two vibrant experiments: "Intern" college-student teachers and "teaching teams." By practicing in nearby schools, interns get enough credit to skip a tedious year of postgraduate study. And often they join teaching teams (being tried in Baltimore this year) that could solve a big problem: the discouraging salary ceiling that a teacher reaches after 15 years. Some teams have equally ranked specialists. Most have a "master" teacher who gives the main presentation, then turns over the class to several journeymen, apprentices and clerical aides. The master (salary...
Strong Medicine. Yet all the big innovations-images of the future-depend on local control and local money. Few states really control curriculums except New York, with its 175-year-old Board of Regents (patterned on French education). And few states provide enough money. All the states together carry 40% of the total U.S. school budget, compared to 57% by local governments...