Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succeeded; yet all bond issues for new school buildings have passed. The difference: much of the leeway money would go to across-the-board teachers' pay raises. A study on merit pay has poked along for four years, but teachers have been consistently cool to the idea of raises given according to ability. Said one disgusted citizen last week: "Sure a good career teacher is worth more money. And a science teacher is worth more than a gymnasium teacher. But the educators just won't look at it that way. Pay the good teacher more, but also...
While in Kilgore last fall, drilling scales into his mother's pupils, Van got a letter from Mme. Lhevinne suggesting that he enter the Moscow competition. He wavered awhile; his managers at Columbia Artists were cool to the idea, wanted him to go instead on a speculative, pay-your-way tour of Europe. But everybody he talked to thought he would win, and his eyes shone with the notion of taking the gold medal in Rachmaninoff's Moscow...
...said, "they have more cause to congratulate me than anybody else." Within hours Columbia Artists' Vice-President William Judd was on the transatlantic phone with honied words. In the first shock of becoming the hottest musical commodity in the world, Van shuttled between awe and the depressing idea of "all those people making money out of me." But as the offers came pouring in, he began to display flashes of a sound horse-trading instinct. When he heard that both Columbia Records and RCA Victor (and every other big record company) were scrambling to sign him, he told Judd...
...students in the HSA," Monro points out, "are those with financial need." Neverthless, Stone states, "there are a lot of fellows who don't need to make money but who have business incentive. We don't want them in existing agencies, but if a guy has a new idea, we'll help...
...would be a good idea to bring a camera to the match, according to one of the participants. He added that those attending would "now have the chance to see why cricket is a better game than baseball...