Word: northwestern
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...educational researchers decided to take action. Under the auspices of John Hopkins psychologist, started up the Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an organization aimed at identifying mathematically gifted students. Since then, Duke, Northwestern. Arizona State, and the University of Denver have organized talent searches modeled after the CTY experiment to identify precocious, intelligent youngsters and develop their untapped academic potential...
...likelihood of youngsters emerging socially maladjusted as a result of such acceleration is uncertain. One participant who received his bachelors' degree from Johns Hopkins at 18 and is currently a professor at Northwestern told The Washington Post he experienced no real difficulties adjusting. Yet even if such programs are innocuous the National Council of Teachers--fearful of the "hurried child syndrome"--has publicly denounced the Hopkins experiment. And Anrig has also opposed CTY, wary that the net benefit students receive from the test might not compensate for the anxiety it produces...
Mexico has often been used by U.S. automakers as a junkyard for dumping outdated models. Now Ford is making a U-turn. The company has decided to cross the border and spend $500million to build a new small car at Hermosillo in northwestern Mexico...
Ironically, one of the big winners was Tanaka, 65, leader of the largest faction within the L.D.P., whose bribery conviction last October had forced Nakasone to call the election. Despite the guilty verdict and opposition charges of "money politics," Tanaka's constituents in the northwestern prefecture of Niigata re-elected him with 221,000 votes, his most resounding victory since he first won the seat 36 years...
That will place Sears even more squarely in competition with financial firms such as Merrill Lynch, American Express and Citicorp. Sears' huge base of cardholders will give it an advantage in the tough battles on the way. Says Stuart Greenbaum, professor of banking and finance at Northwestern University: "Sears could end up being the biggest bank in America without much trouble...