Word: illing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easier for the occupant of the Oval Office to make a heady splash in world affairs than to steer domestic programs through the churning seas of special interests, congressional egos and conflicting political pressures. In foreign and military affairs, a President can snap out orders and, for good or ill, things happen; his envoys and messages race round the globe...
Perhaps the most comical recommendations came from the ill-fated task force on college life. That report, of all things, suggested that the housing crisis at Harvard be solved by exactly the means that Dean Fox rejected. As alternatives, the task force favored four-year Houses (ideally), then mentioned that the 1-1-2 plan seemed interesting, and finally favored putting all freshmen at the Quad. The Fox plan received only token mention. The task force members also wanted a no-choice system of House selection and more aid to the arts. But no one from the task force...
...further ill omen: troops on both sides may be getting trigger-happy. U.S. observers monitoring the disengagement in the Sinai buffer zone have reported to Washington that Israeli and Egyptian units have fired at each other during the course of maneuvers over the past two months...
Education experts, like Senator Edward Brooke (R., Mass.), ranking minority member on the HEW-Labor subcommittee on appropriations, fear that the money crunch will force schools to "mainstream" ill-prepared students into regular classrooms rather than putting them in small special classes. This could prompt a parental backlash. Says Professor Frances Connor, chairman of the special education department of Columbia University's Teachers College: "If you had a child who was just about at the entry level for college, and you felt that his needs were not being met because the handicapped children required a lot of the teacher...
...free-trade principle that the U.S., with some lapses, has supported since World War II. But the Europeans, as well as the Japanese, have been chipping away at that principle steadily-for example, by setting up deals that guarantee commodity prices for a number of developing countries. This bodes ill for the so-called Tokyo Round of international trade talks under way in Geneva, originally intended to be another breakthrough, like the Kennedy Round of the 1960s, in the elimination of trade barriers. But as the talks proceed, the world appears to be heading in a different direction...