Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cotton products bought by Europeans were made abroad, in many cases by firms set up by European manufacturers. The most prominent suppliers were Hong Kong and South Korea. All these countries were simply taking advantage of the high wages earned by European textile workers. In Belgium the average hourly wage is $9.17; in West Germany, $8.80; in Italy, $5.78. Textile workers get 98˘ an hour in Hong Kong and 62˘ in South Korea...
...Annapolis, Md., school because "the system clamps down on any originality or creativity." How, he asks, "can one teacher answer all the children's questions when there's one teacher for 25 or 30 children? If a child is really interested in geography or any particular topic, after one hour he is expected to put away whatever he is doing and start something...
...world, without any sign of common sense or logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child." The tilted, exaggerated perspectives of De Chirico's pre-1920 paintings, their dry meridional light (he could extract more mystery from the harsh hour of noon than most people could find in midnight) and their sense of theatrical expectation, like the hush that precedes the raising of the curtain, gave his work a superbly irrational quality...
Although Powell will go on to teach eight four-hour sessions from a Kaplan-prepared primer, tonight he is playing Ed McMahon. He is warming up the audience, setting the stage, we are told, for the main event--a papal blessing from the guru of the educational test-preparation business...
Parents of these students seem willing to pay extra money for such courses, in or out of the normal school learning process. They reason that if the college game revolves around getting a high score on a three-hour test, then Johnny and Suzy should be intensively primered for such an exercise. "After all," claims the Forest Hills woman, "Isn't high school supposed to prepare you for college...