Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eager to curb Viet Nam's expansive military, China promptly invited First Deputy Foreign Minister Dinh Nho Liem to Beijing last week for the highest- level discussions between the two nations in ten years. Liem presumably asked for assurances that China would reduce aid to the rebels as part of a political settlement...
...still tend to form battle lines over the importance of the budget deficits. Some economists contend that the deficit is no longer a menace because it has shrunk from more than 6% of the gross national product in 1983 to about 3% right now. That is lower than the level of deficit spending during 1975-76, for example, when the gap was widened by a recession. Friedman says he accepts the deficit because it has restrained federal spending. "Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils," he says. While Friedman admits that "mine is not the majority view...
Brown's chance to play politics on the national level came when Ted Kennedy tapped him to be his deputy campaign manager in 1980. He ran the Senator's California primary race, juggling the rivalries there to produce one of the campaign's few successes...
...fitting that during Inauguration week, the stock market should have recovered nearly to its level of Black Monday, the day of the 1987 crash. Fitting, because an Inauguration is more than just a transfer of power. It is a ritual re-enactment of the resilience, the suppleness of American life...
Gardner, an author of books and essays on math, also puts much of the blame on teachers -- particularly at the elementary level, where many classrooms are run by people with little or no math training. "When a class is taught by a teacher not interested in the subject," he notes, "then the class is bored also." Another setback for numbers proficiency, Gardner argues, was infatuation with the new math that emerged during the 1950s. Says he: "Youngsters were learning all kinds of advanced things, but not basic math...