Word: nation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Urban Superintendent Program, the first of its kind in the nation, will begin this summer with a limited enrollment of only 10 to 12 students, school officials said...
...exciting as watching two economists discussing trade incentives for underdeveloped countries on public television. In one corner, you have the Dallas Cowboys, the only team in the NFL that hasn't won a game this season. In the other corner, the SMU Mustangs, who are quickly becoming the nation's worst college football team. (Good news for Kansas State...
Harvard will lose access to one of the nation's five supercomputers when the National Science Foundation cuts funding for the John von Neumann Supercomputer Center in Princeton, N.J. next September, officials said yesterday...
...powers as they stretched toward the Pacific. When the U.S. moved westward, many of the first classic photos of the newfound landscape appeared as engravings in Harper's Weekly and other periodicals. What they were reporting back East was not just scenery but, once again, news -- of the young nation's vastness, its inhuman scale, its economic potential and hard physical challenges...
...when higher education is big business, when "prestigious" diplomas mean as much as they ever have, and financial scandals seemingly touch almost all the nation's most respected institutions, it does not seem too much to press harder for open information from the schools themselves. If they do not owe it to Justice Department investigators, they owe it to their own pursuers of the truth...