Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James A. Garfield introduced a bill to create a separate Department of Education. Although the proposal has changed a bit over the last few decades, the message is still the same: Educational issues are being buried in the federal bureaucracy, and if it's to be taken seriously, education must be given its own special home on the banks of the Potomac...
Supporters of the Department of Education, including a slew of lawmakers and a variety of interest groups, have noisily bemoaned the fate of educational policies. Only a full-fledged Department, they insist, can ensure that education gets the national "visibility and attention" that it deserves. We must have a single spokesperson for the education community, they say--even if he/she is just a convenient scapegoat when things go wrong. If one is to believe its supporters, a department is the miracle cure for what ails the federal education bureaucracy, the wonder drug that will unclog the arteries...
...individual, and many churches remain open. Paintings of the madonna and crosses decorates many homes, but these are generally the heirlooms of pre-revolutionary generations. Most young people are atheists, a requirement for communist party membership. In addition, anyone who aspires to join a communist popular organization must show the "proper ideological development...
While I am quickly breaking away from the "party solidarity" argument that Carter must be renominated, I am not leading myself into believing that Kennedy, a longtime proponent of national health insurance and other important social reforms, is the liberal deity that many seem to believe and want of him as a national leader...
...seventeen years. It would be foolish for liberal Democrats to be so optimistic about any candidate as they were with 'Jimmy Who?' in 1976; we would only be paving a road for dissatisfaction and eventual self-destruction. If we choose to support Kennedy for President in 1980, we must recognize his full political record, particularly in light of the broader constituency which the White House represents. Helene Sahadi York...