Word: levell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These cuts--$568,000 at the high school level--took us by surprise," Diane Tabor, assistant principal for curriculum instruction at the school, told the council...
...deal believe the bulk of technology flow will be from Japan to the U.S. Edward Bursk, chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association of America's International Council, told Congress last month he thought the agreement was fair. Said Bursk: "The U.S. technology involved in FSX is at a reasonable level and under U.S. Government control," adding that Japan could build a comparable plane by itself...
...perhaps as significant as the invention of the wheel." Another said it "may be the most important discovery since fire." Most scientists are still dubious, especially about claims that the experiment produced four times the energy it consumed, but the prospect of virtually limitless energy has generated an unprecedented level of excitement. Dozens of labs are working feverishly to re-create the potentially historic experiment -- with confusingly mixed results...
Unlike previous biographies, Citizen Welles gets to the bottom -- or should one say, false bottom -- of the man. At one level the book projects an old- world Promethean hero thundering against authority and convention. But conveyed with equal weight is an impresario of the self in the American maverick tradition of Charles Ives, Ezra Pound and even Mark Twain's the King and the Duke...
...Japan, the Recruit scandal is raising profound questions about kinken- seiji, or money politics, and the way Japan conducts its public business. On one level the issue is simple bribery. Recruit's mercurial founder, Hiromasa Ezoe, 52, nine other businessmen and three officials of the Labor and Education ministries have been arrested for alleged bribery or violation of securities law (so far no charges have been filed against any elected politician). But on another level the question is whether Japanese politics is so blatantly suffused with the passing of cash that it is practically impossible for officeholders to avoid...