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Word: mathe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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ARMS CONTROL: Supports limited researchon SDI, but not deployment. Against nucleartesting and calls for cuts in superfluous nuclearweapons. CENTRAL AMERICA: Against contraaid, supports Arias peace plan. DEFICIT:Will raise taxes to reduce budget deficit. Opposesbalanced budget amendment. EDUCATION:Favors federal grants to school districts forimproving science, math and foreign languageeducation, and grants to business for instructionin technology. TAXES: Will raise taxes onfamilies earning more than $200,000, increaseliquor and tobacco taxes, and supports a$10-per-barrel oil import tax. TRADE:Against all protectionist policies, calls fortightening sanctions against nations that violatefree trade practices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nationally Declared Candidates | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...clubs as much as the ones who aren't," said Jeffrey A. Cooper '90, council vice chairman. Cooper has a counting problem even worse than Michael Shinagel thinks the Quincy House checkers do. The total membership of the final clubs is approximately 400-500. It doesn't take higher math to realize that this represents a small minority of the college population. And supposedly, in a democracy, the majority rules...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: An Abdication of Council-ar Authority | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Life is like a room. You learn math, a door opens in your room. Now you can enter another room. Yet, I dislike rooms. I like to be free outside, and now I am. For the door to the sky was opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: When The Sky's the Limit | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Gray says, "I was especially concerned to look at the kinds of mathematical education at Harvard, and while it's clear that Harvard does extremely well by its math concentrators, it seems to be clearly in need of beefing...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: An Outside View of a Harvard Education | 2/27/1988 | See Source »

...into four groups: those taking Kaplan, those taking Princeton Review, those attending other commercial courses, and those taking school programs.) The headlines not only contradicted these findings, it even opposed Mr. Fitzsimmon's own admission that coaching may indeed be advisable for test-takers who've been away from math for a while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting In, According to Stanley | 2/25/1988 | See Source »

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