Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Teachers and principals are too often hired and promoted in ways that make excellence a matter of chance, not design...
...ducking his head to avoid the debris streaming from the remnants of the fuselage. "The plane was disintegrating so pieces were falling off it, molding was coming down, and the wind was catching it. The hole up front got bigger and bigger, and I knew it was just a matter of time before the plane came apart...
...brood of local children. But most important were the casual get-togethers at Bennett's home. There the youngsters could talk openly about their hopes and fears, knowing that someone would listen to them and understand. "I found that being a volunteer was priceless," says Bennett in her quiet, matter-of-fact way. "We have no paid staff or anything. It's like an organization of club members." On her mantel are scores of photographs of the youngsters she has known. "Most of these children don't have someone in their house who takes care of them and shows them...
...conventional marriage -- for that matter, no conventional relationship of any kind -- could contain a natural force as powerful as Kazan's. If there is, indeed, something "ugly" in his book, it is his account of his 30 years with his first wife, Molly. She was a Yankee of the old-fashioned kind, high- principled and strong-minded. Her acceptance of him was, Kazan admits, the first sign that he might amount to something; her support and the stable home she provided were vital to his success. Yet he betrayed her constantly, in an obsessive love affair with Actress Constance Dowling...
...matter how far the greenback falls, the U.S. economy does not have the industrial capacity to raise exports sharply and also meet much more of the demand by American consumers. Many U.S. companies are trying to remedy this situation by investing heavily in expansion, but much of the equipment they need comes from foreign suppliers. In fact, the U.S. now gets about 50% of its machine tools from abroad. Importing such capital goods will help build up America's industrial base, but in the short run, it will exacerbate the trade deficit...