Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes two to tango." That is how Ronald Reagan once described the condition necessary for cooperation with the Soviet Union. The tango is just the right metaphor for diplomacy. It is performed in the formal setting of a ballroom, to the vigorous but stately measure of 4/4 time, with a good deal of melodramatic posturing and a great variety of steps. But for the past few years, any kind of dance has been just the wrong metaphor for Soviet-American relations. The two superpowers have been circling each other warily, sometimes menacingly. If they came together, many feared, it would...
...appear to West Europeans to be more flexible than the U.S. Soviet Foreign Affairs Specialist Genrikh Trofimenko added an element of perhaps deliberate uncertainty last week when he told a West German newspaper that if the U.S. were to present the walk-in-the-woods plan as a formal proposal in Geneva "we would discuss...
...returned to Geneva with those instructions. There was no interest on the Soviet side." Perle's comments raised the possibility that some Administration officials may be coming around to the view that it might indeed make sense to put forward the walk-in-the-woods formula as a formal, final offer...
...better idea about the instructors' true wishes. Instead of educational methodology or the latest curriculum fads, he argued, "what teachers want to study is the real stuff, the right stuff." So NEH decided to fund 15 seminars this summer for high school faculty members. The program offered no formal academic credits but did pay teachers up to $2,125 for six weeks while they went back to college for the luxury of studying a great book or two, and all the right stuff: Plato, Thucydides, Homer, Vergil, Chaucer, Alexis de Tocqueville, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann...
...young child can absorb large quantities of knowledge require that it be stuffed like a Strasbourg goose? There were social reasons for launching Project Head Start in the 1960s to get poor children into preschool programs. Most psychologists engaged in the new research, however, are strongly opposed to any formal schooling before the age of three or four, even if the child is capable of it. "We know that babies are coming into the world with a lot more sophisticated skills than we had previously thought, but I do not think reading, writing and arithmetic should be in their curriculum...