Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China in the '80s." Though these course titles do not appear on any formal high school or college curriculum this fall, more than 3,000 teachers across the country will be presenting them nonetheless. They are among the 50 teaching units made available by the TIME Education Program. Under the program, when students subscribe to the magazine at a reduced rate, their teachers receive a wide selection of teaching aids that can include TIME story reprints, maps and charts, and a cassette or filmstrip...
...attacked an off-course El Al Constellation airliner that was apparently flying into Bulgarian airspace. The plane, en route from London to Israel, crashed in Bulgaria, killing all 58 passengers and crew aboard. After an outraged protest from Israel, which accused Bulgaria of "shocking recklessness," the government issued a formal apology. It said the fighter pilots had been "too hasty," and agreed to pay compensation to the victims' families...
Before delivering the formal letter of resignation to President Chaim Herzog, Begin promised to meet with representatives from his Likud coalition. Despite the assurances of a Begin aide that the Prime Minister was not being "Machiavellian," the slight delay seemed to signal that Begin would still be open to friendly persuasion. During the Monday-morning gathering in the Prime Minister's offices, one coalition leader after another pleaded with Begin to stay on, arguing that his departure might bring Labor Leader Shimon Peres to power and weaken the Israeli position in Lebanon and the West Bank. Begin sat through...
After having spent six years away from the classroom, the first weakness I noticed in formal education was the way it trains young minds to see the world through the processes of categorization and idealization. Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine and a prominent critic of the American educational system, visited our sophomore tutorial last year and emphasized the fact that history texts make past events look like the products of superhumans and rigid ideal, when in reality most were the result of a fluid mixture of chance and compromise made by people much like ourselves. He hammered...
...originally by American Telephone & Telegraph. That would mean $26.13 a week for the highest-paid, most experienced workers. With cost of living increases plus another 1.5% wage hike during the contract's second and third years, the union calculates that workers would get total pay raises of 16.4%. Formal ratification by the workers is expected in early October...