Word: localness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure, the Federal Government's role in education is limited, since the states and local school boards wield most of the policymaking power. But Cavazos seems reluctant to take charge even in the areas that are clearly his. He has yet to promulgate all the regulations for the School Improvements Act, an $8.2 billion bill passed last year that would extend existing programs and create new ones, including dropout prevention. Legislation to promote alternative certification programs, Bush's suggested method for combatting the teacher shortage, has gone nowhere on Capitol Hill, say detractors, because Cavazos has failed to rally public...
Only a handful of states test their interpreters for language skills. Thus in many local courts, translation may be a free-lance project for the secretary who speaks a little French or a favor requested from a relative of the defendant. "A family member is the worst person you can use," says Maureen Dunn, an interpreter for the deaf. "They have their own side of the story, and they add and omit things." Besides, interpretation is a sophisticated art. It demands not only a broad vocabulary and instant recall but also the ability to reproduce tone and nuance...
...going on all across the country. After a decade of tough, mandatory sentences and soaring drug arrests, U.S. prisons are overstuffed with inmates. Nearly 628,000 convicted criminals, more than the population of Milwaukee, are bursting the seams of federal and state lockups. An additional 150,000 languish in local jails, sometimes for months, awaiting trial. Some prisons are so crowded that in many states authorities have no choice but to let inmates loose just to accommodate the stream of new arrivals...
...were not for Black Greek organizations, much that has needed to be done in our Black communities would have gone undone. However, the fact that we do not glorify and laud our own accomplishments has hurt us. The fact that we do not speak regularly about the local, national and international public service projects in which we participate is misinterpreted as us not performing those tasks...
Some Sweetwater residents are wary of the newcomers. "A lot of people still go back to World War II," explains Otha McGaughey, who left her job at a local restaurant to work as T.M.G.'s food-service manager. But most seem open to learning about another culture. Says hosiery-mill owner Jackson Jones: "Both sides are trying hard to put their best foot forward...