Word: going
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only way that American education can be reformed is if you understand where the public stands on these issues, refine those views and go with something that is acceptable to them...
...response was that Congress' failure to pass the pay raise made his job--which would have paid $120,000 under the proposed legislation--an $80,000 job. Small beans for someone who could likely be making over $100,000 elsewhere. And, he said, "Remember John Tower. Who wants to go through that scrutiny...
...Seeing that what you do is valued by your peers and an institution like Harvard is very important and makes [the participants] go back feeling better about what they've committed themselves to doing professionally," Baden says...
Hochschild thinks "pro-family" legislation is needed, not to promote school prayers and cut off birth-control funds, as in the cant of the Reagan years, but to equalize women's wages and provide family leave for both sexes. Tax breaks would go to firms that allow job sharing and flextime, and to developers who build affordable housing with communal meal-preparation facilities. (A problem she does not mention is that many employers do encourage part-time work, often as a way to avoid paying for medical insurance and other benefits.) Using the phrase of another sociologist, the author calls...
...hours, zenlike, watching thunderheads build and billow above, gazing at streams running over moss-covered rocks, searching for the sight of a trout, that near perfect fish, as it fins and darts, drifts and feeds in clear mountain water. Those visions take hold and simply won't let go...