Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe dinner tomorrow, he will attempt to explain Johnson's success and Kennedy's failure to get a federal aid to education bill through Congress...
Most U.S. educators have long looked with suspicion on Roberts' fiscal-minded approach to running a college, and last week the North Central Associ ation of Colleges and Secondary Schools voted to revoke Parsons' accreditation. The association did not explain its reasons, but other investigators have unearthed evidence suggesting that academic quality is not Parsons' primary goal. A surprising proportion of its students are either transfers or dropouts from other schools, and the colloquial campus name for Parsons is "Dropout U." Although well-paid, many Parsons professors must handle up to 20 class hours a week...
With the prestige of so many past presidents on the line, the CCA's course might seem certain. Hardly anyone, however, seems to think so. A number of factors seem to explain...
...history of economic theory is Gill's special interest, but he says that "personal predilections" only partly explain how Ricardo and Arkwright found their way into an introductory economics course. The first month of Ec 1 is designed, says Gill, "to convey the relativity of present economic conditions to institutions and ideas of the past, to relate economics to the rest of the social sciences...
...motion picture actor--and not a very good actor at that." He gives Ronald Reagan credit for being a "likable man," but still finds it hard to believe that the achievements of his two terms "didn't make any impression at all on voters." When he is pressed to explain his loss to Reagan, Brown confesses--somewhat helplessly--that he just doesn't "understand" the voting public anymore. "I don't think that as of today I represent the majority view in California," he says...