Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most conciliatory speeches of his presidency, proposing regular negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on many levels and varying issues. But Gromyko had made it clear in his harshly worded speech to the U.N. Thursday that Moscow was looking for U.S. concessions before resuming formal bargaining on arms control or, indeed, almost anything else. He clung to that position consistently, though a bit less polemically, in private meetings with Shultz and Reagan's Democratic challenger, Walter Mondale...
...more of a substantive nature from Moscow until after the voting. Gromyko, they believe, will need time to confer with his colleagues in the Soviet leadership on what to do next, and the Administration will also have to do some retooling of the position to take if and when formal negotiations resume. Soviet officials agree on the timing of any exchanges, but for a different reason. Says one Soviet diplomat: "We want to see how Ronald Reagan behaves after he is reelected, because we can't trust him before the election." -By George J. Church...
...foreign embassies complaining that the run "interfered with the normal life of the city." The Soviets asked the joggers to confine their activity to parks and to official sporting facilities. Clint Halloran, 43, a trim Australian attaché who serves as Hash Master, the elected head of the in formal club, chose not to regard the Soviet demand as a worsening of East-West relations. In compliance with the Soviets' request, the runs have been rescheduled for nonrush hours and moved to various parks and suburbs, like the area around the U.S. embassy dacha, ten miles from the Kremlin...
...education, says that demanding kindergartens create too much stress for the youngsters and can have damaging consequences. She warns, "We have data which say absolutely that if you 'structure' too quickly you kill creative thinking." Sharon Lynn Kagan, an assistant professor of education at Yale, agrees that formal instruction in subjects Like reading is inappropriate for the very young. "Kindergarten should be a readiness time," she says. "It's a time to socialize, a time to elevate the child's motivation...
...attitudes of the parents are another matter. As the controversy continues, those in a quandary may derive some reassurance from Barbara Fry, principal of Wakefield Forest Elementary School in Fairfax County. Says she: "Of course we want to develop a child's formal learning skills. But in the end, some children just need to be children." -By Richard Lacayo...