Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practical manual as well as an exhortation to better behavior; Hills promises not only to make virtue fashionable but to bring it within the grasp of the most temptation-beset person. When it comes right down to it, though, if you start with Hills's straight-forward view of vice, the actual how of being virtuous isn't that complicated--if you want to be good, why not just do it (leave your car window intact, pay for your books, etc)? Virtue costs money, to be sure; but the part that really bothers Hills--what makes how to be good...
...goal to Hofstra, and has already won its Ivy League opener, stomping Yale, 13-8. The Red and Blue return a fine middie in Mike Page, and an All-Ivy attackman in Pete Hollis, but must replace Mark Avart, the best goalie in the league last year. Looking forward to the Penn game, Scalise said yesterday, "There's one really good thing about a lot of our games this year, and the Penn game is one of them--going into the game you really can't say who should win and who should lose. And that's a credit...
...York's board of regents last week voted unanimously to require all high school students in the state to pass a ninth-grade reading and mathematics examination in order to graduate. Several of the regents hailed the new standard as a "giant leap forward." After all, the New York City board of higher education, seeking to restrict the "open admissions" policy of the City University of New York, decided last December to impose an even less taxing standard on college entrants: an eighth-grade reading level in English...
Perhaps other giant leaps forward are in the offing. An eleventh-grade examination for a bachelor's degree? A twelfth-grade examination for a Ph.D...
...wanted to go even as far as the offer did. Responds St. Louis Cardinal Outfielder Lou Brock: "The owners are afraid to make changes when they know they have to. They are on a string of hope not based on reality." For the moment though, everyone was looking forward to the altogether more enjoyable prospect of getting the game back on the field. Whatever was finally resolved across the bargaining table, it seemed clear that after nearly a century, baseball's perpetual reserve clause would be ejected from the game...