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...crop of high school seniors made their largest combined gain since 1963. That was the year the scores began a decline lasting nearly two decades. Out of a possible 800, math results climbed by 3 points, to 471; verbal averages were up by 1, to 426. Says George Hanford, president of the College Entrance Examination Board, which sponsors the test: "We seem to have turned the corner in seeking to improve American education...
This year's results, suggests Hanford, say that students "have grown up under a different set of circumstances, that their society was more interested in education." According to Chester Finn, professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University, the upturn can also be linked to a renewed stress on the fundamentals. The knowledge measured by the SATs, he says, "is the very kind that has been the object of the so-called back-to-basics movement for the past six to eight years...
Certainly the G.O.P. has more nationally prominent women. Among the most well-known names: Transportation Secretary Elizabeth ("Liddy") Hanford Dole, 47; Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler, 52; Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, 54; and Anne Armstrong, 56, former Ambassador to Britain. The only other woman in the Senate besides Kassebaum is also a Republican, Florida's Paula Hawkins, 57. Although she has always been a registered Democrat, United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, 57, has become an honorary Republican with her highly visible, aggressively anti-Communist role in the Reagan Administration...
...theory has yet to be put into practice. Although the U.S. has three sites-Hanford, Wash., Beatty, Nev., and Barnwell, S.C. -for the disposal of such low-level wastes as contaminated clothing and the radioactive materials used by hospitals, it does not have a permanent repository capable of handling spent fuel rods. Attempts to create such a facility at Hanford were halted when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Geological Survey, the State of Washington and the Yakima Indians all joined together to object because of uncertainties about underground water movement...
...Elizabeth Hanford Dole, 47. As Secretary of Transportation, Lawyer Dole was the Administration's first female Cabinet member. Her North Carolina roots could help a Republican in the traditionally Democratic South, but her vice-presidential prospects are complicated by the fact that her husband Senator Robert Dole has his eye on the presidency...