Word: linke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sound, One Symbol. I.T.A. proponents believe that all this sabotages conventional ways of teaching reading. The "look-say" method tries to link the visual pattern of a word with its meaning, only to run up against confusing variations of form (all three letters of "AND" look different from those of "and," for example). Also difficult is trying to apply the phonic method, which teaches children to single out letters and their phonemic values so that they can read and spell analytically. In the 26-letter alphabet, one letter often represents different sounds in differing words-for example...
...years, the death of the Houston Press has been merely a matter of time. By last week the time had come. For a reported $4,100,000, the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain sold its weakest link to Houston's other afternoon daily, the Chronicle...
...buses that will use the new terminal. Last week, with his eye on lengthier travel as well, Osano asked the Japanese government for permission to start a bus line from Tokyo to a moun tain resort 140 miles away; he hopes that it will be the first link in a Greyhound-like system for Japan...
...Hard-edge? Many visitors to Richard Lindner's latest show at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery suffer an uninformed urge to link his art to the latest fads of the newest artists. But Lindner is 62; his paintings are a liaison with the past and Europe. Groomed by Dada and formed by cubism, he shows how the art that shocks today is resolutely linked to the art that shocked yesteryear...
...complex field of patents, everyday products have often inspired memorable decisions. The shredded-wheat biscuit became a courtroom cause celebre in 1938, when the Supreme Court set precedent by ruling that Kellogg could make the same biscuit as Nabisco, whose patent had expired and whose link to the shredded-wheat name had faded. The pink color of Pepto-Bismol was at issue in 1959, when a federal court in New York ruled that the pink had a "functional" purpose and therefore could be copied. Last week the Supreme Court handed down a decision of such broad impact that it overturned...