Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troops forged out to a 3-0 lead after the first chukker. Both squads spent equal time in front of the other's goal but Valley Forge successfully converted its opportunities into scores...
...begun offering an Art Card on which patrons can charge up to half the price of a painting or sculpture, and take as long as five years to pay (at 15% interest). One California civil servant used the card to buy a Maxfield Parrish original that cost $14,000-equal to his annual salary. At Emory University in Atlanta, students can use credit cards to enroll for any evening course-Spanish, fiction writing, belly dancing. Some churches in the same city let parishioners charge their annual pledges on credit cards...
About a third of the holders of bank credit cards pay their bills within 25 days and thus escape the interest charges equal to 18% a year that banks levy on cardholders who pay their accounts more slowly. Last May, however, Manhattan's Citibank began imposing a fee of 500 a month on the prompt payers. Bank officials protested that they were losing money handling the quickly settled accounts. Be that as it may, the charge marks a vaguely Orwellian first: customers now have to pay for the privilege of not using extended credit...
Perhaps the most outspoken opponent of minimal competency is Educator Arthur Wise, whose influential 1968 treatise, Rich Schools, Poor Schools, argued that children in both affluent and underprivileged school districts had the right to an equal education. Wise is currently working on another book, tentatively titled Hyper-Rationalization, which condemns competency testing for "narrowing the goals of education and prompting teachers to teach the test." Wise fears that minimal competency entails the extension to education of such business-school concepts as cost effectiveness and accountability. Says he of minimal competency advocates: "It is as if they want to set goals...
...costs of team travel, equipment and athletics scholarships soaring, it has been estimated that fewer than 30 colleges out of more than 1,000 engaged in intercollegiate athletics are running profitable sports programs. A second financial headache comes from the federal mandate that women must soon be given equal opportunity in sports. Says Lyman: "Everybody is facing the Title IX requirement [of the Education Amendments, passed in 1972] to secure equity for women in intercollegiate athletics and to do so with reasonable dispatch. If we are soon going to grant large numbers of scholarships for women athletes...