Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following June, on the basis of low test scores, 800 students (21% white, 79% black), compared with only 239 the previous year, were ordered to repeat their grades. What is now known as the Greensville experiment was well under way. In Owen's innovative program, students held back because of below-average performance do not sit in their old classrooms while other classmates move ahead. They are assigned to new rooms and teachers, and usually grouped with children of similar ages, while they begin a special remedial course of study that focuses on basic reading, writing and math...
...Federal Government offered a generous and farsighted plan to help low-income students through college. Under the terms of the guaranteed student loan plan, they could go to college or trade school now and pay later, borrowing money from their schools, banks or other lending agencies while the Government guaranteed repayment. In 1972 the plan was even extended to students whose parents earned more than $15,000. The terms were easy: students were allowed to defer payment until ten years after graduation...
...helping young musicians. That was why, at age 80, he helped to found the American Symphony Orchestra in New York in 1962. He had demanded and received huge salaries in Philadelphia ($110,000 a year at his peak), plus the income from radio and recordings, at a time of low income taxes. Stokowski took no pay from the American Symphony, and even backed it with...
...Hubby John Warner joined the glamorous golden hordes thronging the scene of the America's Cup races. Ted Turner's Courageous looked like a winner as she hoisted her sails and breezed off to compete against the Australians. When ashore, Captain Ted kept a low profile, apart from throwing an impromptu party on Bannister's Wharf to read a special letter. "I am proud of you all and all Americans, Yankees and Southerners," wrote Jimmy Carter. "That was nice of him," conceded Turner...
...Desire is not simply a rehash of the earlier books. Kepesh's monologue is a more humane and thoughtful handling of the subject that has fascinated and obsessed Roth in print for the past ten years: the woebegone, self-destructive tug of war between high aspirations and low lusts. Kepesh is another of Roth's Jewish centaurs, trying to keep his head in a cloud of pipe smoke while ignoring his pawing hooves...