Word: likes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Advocates like choice because it empowers parents and fosters competition among schools. Critics say the policy is racist, encouraging parents to take their children and tax dollars out of minority-dominated inner-city schools...
...pledge to stay in school, troubled youths ages 14 to 18 are paired with "mentors" from local firms who offer counseling as well as a promise of a full-time job upon graduation or financial aid for more education. More than 90 students have enrolled so far this fall. Like most school-business partnerships, the Orlando program is small, localized and ! labor intensive. But the work-study approach, which Bush backs, appears ripe for application on a broader scale...
Upscale department-store chains have been among the most fashionable U.S. targets for foreign investors. Like well-heeled Christmas shoppers, they scooped up some of the most famous names in American retailing, from Bloomingdale's to Bonwit Teller. Now several store chains are suddenly up for sale again, creating a sense of turmoil in retailing just as it heads into its busiest season...
...prove elusive. The aging revolutionaries who dominate Viet Nam's 13-member Politburo are largely uneducated and rigidly dogmatic. They resist the creative solutions of younger technocrats and refuse to countenance the kind of political renovation that might stanch the flow of tens of thousands of refugees each year. Like the Chinese, they continue to believe that economic miracles are possible without political reform. "The Old Guard was good for war," says a Foreign Ministry official, "but not for peacetime Viet...
...view from the border, where most of the troops are based, is far less sanguine. "The Khmer Rouge are in this fight to the end," says a guerrilla- warfare expert in Thailand. Observes an international relief worker: "They are known as a clean and disciplined movement, not corrupt like the others...