Word: inge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Large public universities, for instance, are suddenly raising or establishing cutoff scores and grades for admission. That practice has ing been considered too rigid, and hence unfair. In an even blunter attempt to spur high schools to action, some systems, like California's are adopting specific curricular requirements. They're refusing to consider anyone without a set number of years in English, math, and so forth. Others are considering shifting their admissions emphasis to Achievement Tests, rather than SATs, and that, too, is adding to the momentum of attempted curriculum manipulation...
...Palestinian males are being detained as P.L.O. suspects at Ansar, a village near Sidon.) Israeli forces have denied Palestinians permission to return to the camps that were once their homes, though last week Jerusalem finally relented and agreed to let the U.N. bring in 11,000 tents for hous ing before the October rains begin. Ultimately, however, the Israelis would like the camps to disappear, and for the 150,000 to 200,000 Palestinians presently living in southern Lebanon to be resettled in other Arab countries or in other parts of Lebanon. Says a senior foreign ministry official in Jerusalem...
...other national business publications since January, claims to have sold a few dozen of them so far. Says Vice President Carmine Pellosie: "Executives come in when they're about to meet with people they don't know, especially in merger situations when valuable information is be ing exchanged...
...argued that the strong woman is only this summer's fashion, like Deely Bobbers and E.T., and that most women will soon tire of sweating themselves into fight ing shape. The disco beat at the local health club may begin to sound as monotonous as the old metronome; muscular aerobicians will resent being mistaken for football players; Jane Fonda will find herself another cause and let her deltoids go to flab. Throughout history, women have been alternately starved and stuffed, and no one can guarantee that next year's body heroine won't be Dolly Parton. But to imagine this...
...money. But it's less conservatism than materialism." Says Lillie Dollinger, an economics major at Texas A & M: "In the '80s the issues are money and jobs, and the conservatives are the ones getting students stirred up." At the same time, there has been a distinct cool ing on college campuses toward affirmative action: students tend to view special help for minorities as a threat to their own chances of success...