Word: imparters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...planning group dismisses the notion that the only way to impart knowledge is to place a teacher in front of a small group. Technology would play a primary role in Whittle's new classroom. Each Whittle school would be linked by closed-circuit television to a central studio, which might result in a 1-to-1 million teacher-to-student ratio. Interactive electronic data banks would allow students to do comprehensive research on their own. Notebook computers would be as common as lunch boxes...
Finally, even when the Ad Board reaches a "good" outcome, students are so often alienated by the process that they derive none of the "educational" benefits that the Ad Board had hoped to impart to them. To characterize CLUH's recommendations for remedying these problems as having already been implemented is therefore to miss the entire point of the report...
Then there's J. Danforth Quayle, the nation's first teenage heartthrob vice president. To counter his widely perceived boyishness early in 1989, Quayle dyed the hair just above his ears gray. This, of course, was to impart an image of distinguished, rather than school-boy, good looks. But when news of his hair-graying plot came out, Danny just looked ridiculous...
...being outsiders. We spend our time watching other people's lives. We thrive on conflict and human suffering, and then, for lack of a better term, exploit it so that fellow outsiders can peer in and gasp with us. Along the way, some of us at least try to impart some lesson about justice, and hope that the lesson isn't lost amid the squawking...
...progressiveness, we suggest that the previous bias in drama was unfortunate, that the dearth of sensitivity to minority and female representation has robbed these groups of precious cultural capital. So when directors choose to cross-cast, they are making a conscious effort to impart new capital to those groups that were marginalized in the past...