Word: leveler
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Local administrators also complain that HEW tends to start programs too quickly, without giving them sufficient thought or staffing. Then the department demands fast results. Says an official in the Social Security administration in Atlanta: "The people at HEW's management level want statistics showing that large numbers of claims have been processed so they can impress Congress with what a good job they are doing. They don't care anything about quality; all they want is quantity...
...Chinese exodus as a pretext to put pressure on an erstwhile ally that is leaning more and more toward Moscow. Soviet technical aid and loans have reinforced the Kremlin's influence in Viet Nam. Fearful of being encircled by Soviet-dominated countries, Peking this year has dispatched high-level diplomatic missions to Burma, Nepal and North Korea in an effort to shore up good relations with border nations. The verbal fireworks that China has exploded over the refugee issue are a clear warning that Peking will respond even more menacingly to any attempt by Hanoi to overthrow the pro-Chinese...
Energy instruction in other cities is generally less formal, though the impact of student thinking has been striking. In the Los Angeles school system, teachers begin focusing on energy at the kindergarten level, urging kids to turn off lights and not to linger in front of an open refrigerator for long, languid looks. Chicago schools have for years been teaching environmental science, with emphasis on energy conservation. Mike Palatnik, a teacher at Sullivan High School, made an intriguing discovery: "Kids want cars and material things, particularly boys. They are often hard to reach. Girls, on the other hand, seem...
...shape-up-or-ship-out policy that public schools cannot follow. Students are fined or assigned mandatory chores if they are tardy or cut class; vandalism, drug use and academic failure are grounds for expulsion. Students may come with low reading skills, but they must read at twelfth-grade level to graduate. Adams himself sometimes accosts students as they go home: "If you're not on the honor roll, you can't afford to walk out of school without any books...
Many Cambridge residents regard the University as being in the real estate business for profit. Although most rents are at the market level, Harvard owns an estimated $8 million worth of tax-exempt property in Cambridge, and makes a $507,000 in-lieu-of-tax payment. The situation in Boston is similar, except that Harvard pays no in-lieu-of-tax payment there and the value of exempt property is twice as high--an estimated $16 million. Harvard has not yet decided whether the corporation will handle Boston properties. The most publicized complaints, from Boston Fair Share and Cambridge community...