Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Five years ago Adler introduced an iconoclastic program he calls the Paideia (from the Greek word for raising a child) to schools in Atlanta, Chicago and Oakland. Unlike conventional curriculums, with their set-piece texts and lectures, fast-track studies for bright kids and vocational dead ending for slower ones, the Paideia presents the same material to all students, conveyed through Socratic talk between teachers and pupils. It is Adler's conviction that every child can handle the richest offering of broad, humanistic learning. While he concedes that intellectual capacities vary, by his own metaphor, from half-pint to gallon...
...Christ," I said. "You know the press, Mike--always doom-and-gloom. The way I look at it, the fast food industry's alive and well. Some people just have to complain...
...order to avoid paying reparations, Dewitt quickly mingled among a crowd of film seekers, attentively viewing The Color Of Money (Beacon Hill). Dewitt had seen this movie before and at second look decided he didn't like it. The Color Of Money updates the story of pool-hustler Fast Eddie Felsen (Paul Newman). After years of retirement, Felsen decides to re-enter the billiard biz by tutoring a young hustler named Vince (Tom Cruise), teaching him to love currency more than the game itself...
...rules for women were changing at lightning speed. They had begun thinking about career before family. But finding themselves post-hippy pioneers thrust onto an unfamiliar and uncomfortable fast track, they often faltered. Radcliffe President Matina Horner's theories about women's fear of success were hitting the front pages, and post-combat-era feminists were uneasily trying to negotiate between the gender and generation gaps...
Aspiring CEOs will delight in the fast-paced corporate odyssey of Michael J. Fox, who stars as Brantley Foster in The Secret of My Success. The film resembles a financial fantasy from the mind of Alex P. Keaton, Fox's Family Ties character, with Brantley blasting up the corporate ladder in a relative nanosecond. With creativity as his only asset, Brantley parlays his way from the mailroom to the boardroom of his uncle's conglomerates...