Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure, the inner workings of the Politburo have always been obscure to outsiders, but the uncertainty about Andropov underscores the current lack of American expertise on the Soviet Union. Even the Central Intelligence Agency admits that it is having trouble providing the kind of analysis needed by U.S. policymakers. Says a CIA spokesman: "It is becoming more difficult to recruit graduate students who have a real understanding of Soviet internal affairs." Notes Paul K. Cook, the top Kremlinologist at the State Department: "The number of well-trained senior Soviet specialists just suffices for the moment, but within five...
Even when poor rural and inner-city schools elect to spend their limited funds on computers, the teachers are often inadequately prepared. Pressured to improve basic skills quickly, they take the most direct route, using computers as electronic flash cards for simple drill and practice. By contrast, specially trained teachers at more sophisticated schools are introducing ever younger children to the art of programming. In Georgia's affluent De Kalb County, 445 teachers a year take four-hour instruction sessions one night a week. Says Frank Barber, the training coordinator: "We believe the nicest thing that can happen...
...tight money and taxpayer rebellions, government is not likely to redress the disparity. In fact, the Reagan Administration is urging a one-third cut in the funding for the federal program under which most of the few computers in inner-city schools were purchased. Another much ballyhooed prospect for help is also in trouble. Steven Jobs, the 27-year-old chairman of Apple Computer, had proposed donating a free computer to every school in the country, provided Congress grant manufacturers the same tax break that would be available if they gave the equipment to a university. The companies that took...
When Vallely returned from the war to his hometown of Newton, he sought to shed previous apathy's and get more involved in community life. But, like many other men who served in Vietnam, Vallely had to cope with inner problems of listlessness and boredom. Working from nine to five at a civil engineering firm, he says, eventually became a grind...
There is a method in Mamet's modishness. Edmond harbors horrified inner fears of blacks, homosexuals and, possibly, women. Raised to consciousness, these fears are exorcised. It is a quest for identity based on Joseph Conrad's admonition: "In the destructive element immerse. That is the way." The way to what? Quite probably, the way to understand and absorb the dark tenor and temper of the age, the kind of visceral awareness of anarchy that William Butler Yeats had in mind when he wrote, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned...