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Word: levelling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Phillips, a three-year letterman at wide receiver in football and a four-year starter in basketball, says he will not attempt to follow in Bo Jackson's footsteps. If he makes it at either sport, the other will become a hobby at the playground, not professional, level...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Gridders Wait for the Pro Call | 4/21/1989 | See Source »

THIS Hammarabian legal system need not be applied solely at a national level. For example, Harvard students were frustrated this spring because Core professors lotteried their courses at the last moment. They felt powerless because University rules permitted such unfair treatment...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Tooth for a Tooth | 4/20/1989 | See Source »

...current series of Doonesbury strips, Michael's employer wants him to design advertisements to lure first-time, or "entry-level" smokers into a lethal habit. The contract promises big money, but his liberal soul protests. Should he serve God or Mammon--social responsibility or individual opportunity...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Confessions of a Liberal Slime | 4/20/1989 | See Source »

Meanwhile, scientists at the National Agency for Nuclear and Alternative Energy in Italy have found neutron emissions up to 100 times the normal background level in a high-pressure apparatus that used no electrical current...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Discoveries Bring Confusion | 4/20/1989 | See Source »

...teach a person well unless you know that person well," he said. Sizer said the "centralization of education" in the U.S. stifles individuality in students. Specifically, he criticized the use of standardized testing and the rigidity of rules which strictly correlate the age of students with their grade level...

Author: By Timothy S. Gramling, | Title: Panelists Suggest Reforms To American Education | 4/20/1989 | See Source »

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