Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last September the Department of Health, Education and Welfare sent a stern command to the Joseph Sears Elementary School in Chicago's posh North Shore suburb of Kenilworth (pop. 2,980). According to HEW, Sears was required to fill out a detailed Title IX questionnaire explaining how it had eliminated sex discrimination in its hiring policy, in facilities for its 575 pupils and in its curriculum. The penalty for noncompliance: an end to HEW aid for the school...
...every morning he tends to the world. The sun has not yet climbed above the trees when he pulls on his cardigan sweater in his small study and greets Brzezinski, who arrives with a sheaf of overnight cables summarizing the hopes and despairs of 4 billion people. Three presences fill the study - Carter, Brzezinski and Wolf gang Amadeus Mozart...
...News President Dick Salant talked to Chancellor about the job. Chancellor was intrigued but decided to stay with NBC, and in his new ten-year contract has the assurance of shortly becoming a commentator. As for CBS, unable to get either Chancellor or Bill Moyers, Salant decided not to fill the 2½-minute Sevareid spot: "After all, it's 10% of our news hole...
...trash" that descended on booksellers each Christmas. Dickens' yuletide tales were hungrily awaited by hundreds of thousands; even when pressed by the demands of his novels, the author did not want to omit his annual story and thus "leave any gap at Christmas firesides which I ought to fill." Dickens patented the plum-pudding vision of Christmas that reality so often mocks, sending millions into holiday funks. "It is good to be children sometimes," he wrote in A Christmas Carol "and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself...
...students. Cuba has limited the number of students studying in these fields, because, as Quintero, an engineering students, recognizes, "We can't use doctors and lawyers to pull us out of (economic) underdevelopment." Cuban students are encouraged from a young age to enter professions that will most directly fill societal needs. The channeling of students into certain careers is necessary, Arce agreed, in order that Cuba's tremendous investment in education is eventually paid back. By 1969 Cuba already invested one fifth of its total productive capacity-a greater portion into education than that of any other major country...