Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours were running short. Said his Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan: "We don't have much time to play with. The first phase [of the Cairo talks] will be over by Christmas. Then we must make the next move, either to meetings at the Foreign Minister or Prime Minister level or to Geneva in February to sign a peace treaty...
...called black English. Her pupils, many of whom do not know the alphabet when they arrive, take standardized tests at the beginning and end of each year to measure their ability. Their progress has been phenomenal. Many jump from well below to well above their actual grade level. One, Ericka McCoy, 8, was assigned to a class for the mentally retarded before enrolling at Westside last year. Today she is reading at the tenth-grade level...
...faith or the funds to build there. Thus the opening of the new $150 million Citicorp Center in midtown Manhattan was an event in itself. More important to New Yorkers and tourists is that the skyscraper gives a stunningly imaginative new accent to the skyline -and, at ground level, is one of the world's few megabuildings that actually appear hospitable to human beings...
...Medicine. In line with the bank's desire for a "humane" building, Stubbins proposed to loft an aluminum-faced structure on huge columns 112-ft. tall, thus creating the space for the shopping area and atrium, a sunken entrance plaza with a waterfall tumbling down from street level, a renovated subway station and, of course, the new church. "Aesthetically," says Stubbins, 65, "the Citicorp Center brings back to the city lightness and brightness-it meets the street with drama, and opens up the city canyons in a way no other building has ever attempted...
...bank set up 14 dummy corporations to acquire the 30 separate parcels involved. So closely was the secret held that when one of the dummy companies set up by the bank's top brass sought a loan to buy a parcel of the block, a lower-level Citibank officer turned it down. Chuckles Wriston: "He didn't know who he was saying...