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...National Commission on Excellence in Education released a damning report on the state of public education, Entitled "A Nation at Risk," the report cited "a rising tide of mediocrity" in the nation's classrooms and incited a flood of media attention and finger pointing by and at teachers, administrators, parents and politicians...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko, | Title: Don't Know Nothin' About History | 4/13/1985 | See Source »

...funds. The outcome was clearly influenced by Democrats' reluctance to be seen as "soft on defense." Said California's Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee: "The only concern of those who are switching (votes to support the MX) is that the President will point a finger at them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Turn for the Gipper | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...important as his finger are to him, music is more important, says Isang, adding. "I think I could nver live without it. Whether it's rock or classical...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Tsang: The Carnegie Cellist | 4/6/1985 | See Source »

...those aching to be partaking in the instant history of a new finger on the nuclear button, the new hammer banging the Soviet sickle. Thomas G. Butson of the New York Time's instant-biography of Mikhail S. Gorbachev will come not second too soon...

Author: By Michael W. Hitchoin, | Title: Fashioning Significance in an Insta--Biography | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...have the charisma. If Ali came in here now (Holmes is speaking in a restaurant), right away he would start shadowboxing with you. But I can't be that way. I'd be afraid of sticking a thumb in your eye." Meanwhile, no one is shy about poking a finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Undefeated and Underappreciated | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

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