Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...detention facility will be built in the District and more beds will be available in a federal prison in Maryland. Drug treatment will gain only 300 beds instead of the 1,040 the city asked for. Will Bennett's battle plan do much to help the nation's capital kick the habit? Given the czar's imperiousness and the swirl of rumors surrounding Barry, whose friendship with an accused drug dealer is under investigation, that is far from certain...
...instruction to meet the woeful inadequacies of our public school system. We cannot afford to relegate 50% of the university's time and resources to remedial work . . . The universities in two years cannot do justice to twelve years of neglect in learning. We are our high schools' keepers. The nation must take preventive measures to reform, strengthen and in some instances rescue our high school system...
...majority against a weak field of opponents. With no strong challenger to smoke him out, the tall, quiet Bradley got away with something akin to a Rose Garden strategy. He granted few interviews and ran in part on a platform of "the most ambitious sewer-improvement project in the nation." On election night, he talked about a new literacy program, public works jobs, beautifying neighborhoods and household-trash separation...
Reforming the system could take a very long time. More immediately, Takeshita is eager just to get the Recruit scandal behind him. For one thing, the Diet's opposition forces are holding hostage the nation's budget, which should have been in place April 1. They refuse to debate it until the L.D.P. agrees to allow Nakasone to testify under oath about his role in the Recruit affair. For another, Takeshita must set a date for elections to the Diet's upper house by Aug. 13, and in the poisonous atmosphere created by Recruit, the L.D.P.'s chances of winning...
...difficult to figure out why. Concern over illiteracy and the decline of the nation's schools has alarmed the generation of well-educated baby boomers who are now rearing their own children. "This is the most ardent interest on the part of parents that we've seen in a very long time," says Susan P. Bloom, director of the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College in Boston...