Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration through a laborious internal process, establishing directions, making decisions, hammering out exact language and calculating how to arrest attention and enlist the public. If the preliminaries are not done, or are done badly, the speech is rarely worth anything and is frequently alarming for the evidence of inner doubt it presents...
Nonetheless, the criticism is at least partly justified: there is in fact no economic adviser who can consistently get the President's ear to set a clear policy line. Instead, Carter gets his primary business and economic intelligence from a tight inner circle of four men. In rough order of present prominence, they...
Emphysema results in slow smothering since it destroys the inner walls of lungs and hampers the exchange of carbon dioxide for oxygen in the blood...
...double-digit truancy, increasing illiteracy and steadily falling Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, many American high schools are clearly in trouble. This week's cover story examines the plight of U.S. secondary education today and profiles three high schools not burdened with the special, severe social problems of the inner cities...
...their class officers. On the other hand, violence is rare: surprisingly so, since a strict caste system separates the "jocks" (often children of the town's wealthier residents) and the "wall rats," so named because they once congregated along a wall behind the school to smoke before an inner courtyard was designated this year as a smoking area. Their fathers are apt to be mill hands or fishermen, and they tend to come from poor or broken homes...