Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote, scheduled for next week, promises to be different. Seven years after first requesting money for the rebels and making the contras a cornerstone of his foreign policy, Reagan may be facing his final showdown over the fate of those he once likened to the Founding Fathers. Administration officials maintain that there are only enough military supplies in the pipeline to sustain the rebels through February. If the vote is no, Reagan will not be able to provide new funds until October, dangerously close to the end of his term, when his influence will be minimal. "If Congress votes down...
...meet those expectations. No less vital to their success, in almost every case, has been a bold, enduring principal -- if not a Joe Clark, then a different kind of strong personality with his or her own talents as manager and leader. The best of these leaders are able to maintain or restore order without abandoning the students who are in trouble. They approach their staffs, students, parents and communities with a cooperative rather than a confrontational style. "Every good school has a good principal," insists William Kristol, chief of staff for Secretary Bennett. "He can set the general tone...
...began with this set of rules: "In class on time; no hats; no Walkman in school; a student roaming the corridors without a pass is written up immediately and given a warning." His neighbor, Principal O'Neill at Lewenberg, set up equally simple standards. "The first order was to maintain control of the hallways, so we put in quiet, single- filing lines. Students go to their lockers at the beginning of the day. An assignment left in a locker is a missed assignment. Bathroom passes are issued only during the first ten minutes of class...
...second priority is curriculum, with the teachers to make it work. Maria Tostado, principal of Los Angeles' Garfield High, which twelve years ago had sunk to the brink of losing its accreditation, helps maintain the place as a scholar factory by mixing rules with demanding classes: "We phased out the bonehead courses and put in more advanced, challenging courses." Garfield now - boasts 15 advanced-placement teachers in subjects such as calculus and physics. This year 370 students are taking the advanced-placement exams for college credit...
...utility continued borrowing heavily to finish the reactor and maintain interest payments. But as the reactor's licensing woes mounted, investors last summer refused to lend the company any more money, triggering financial crisis...