Word: matting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Teachers For two decades Harvard was recognized as a national leader in the training of teachers through the Masters of Arts in teaching (MAT) program. Ten years ago the HGSE faculty voted to eliminate this program, largely as a consequence of the elimination of formerly substantial federal funds for this enterprise and of the shifting interests of the HGSE faculty. One program at HGSE which maintained an involvement with teachers was Professor Jeanne Chall's Reading Laboratory where both inexperienced and experienced teachers could become reading specialists for the schools...
...combination of public apathy and the government's traditional mat pen rai (never mind) attitude has for years hampered efforts to save the city. But now Deputy Prime Minister Phichai Rattakul is leading a movement to design an antiflood master plan. Thirty-two projects have been approved so far. It is estimated that the entire plan will be completed in five to ten years...
Still, Deputy Prime Minister Phichai is determined to solve the problem. Says he: "Even if it would cost 10 billion baht [$435 million], I don't mind." Others fear that the project will fall victim to post-monsoon mat pen rai. Predicts one specialist on flood control: "After autumn, after the rains, they will forget...
...Reagan Administration's willingness to send men and matériel around the world is hardly surprising. It is consistent with the President's starkly anti-Communist world view. And while his policy pronouncements sometimes seem awkward or belligerent, the President's deployments have not been reckless. Direct confrontation with the Soviets has been avoided, and U.S. casualties (six killed in Lebanon, one in El Salvador) have been...
...emotional about, and quality control is one of them," he said. "The Department of Defense could save billions if we could have better quality assurance." The failure of contractors to deliver on such assurances, Wickham said, has plagued everything from weapons systems to the most mundane matériel. The electronic weaponry of the Patriot ground-to-air missile was so failure-prone that the Army has decided to stop testing it for now. Until recently the Copperhead guided artillery projectile was beset with targeting problems. Even fatigue uniforms are not immune: one shipment shrank on being laundered...