Word: notions
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...Hall University in South Orange, N.J., promoting an old idea that had been rejuvenated in the report: merit pay. "Teachers should be paid and promoted on the basis of their merit," he said. The powerful 1.6 million-member National Education Association and other teacher organizations have traditionally fought the notion of rewarding better teachers with more money, arguing that there is no objective way to measure a teacher's competence and that it would lead to favoritism and bad morale. But Reagan strategists think the President is on the popular side of the meritocracy issue. Says one aide...
...week as an advisory panel on arms control to serve until January 1984. The President further emphasized that he had given Rowny the go-ahead to explore "all appropriate avenues" for meeting the new U.S. arms-limitation goals. Reagan also spoke about the eventual incorporation into START of the notion of "build-down," an idea that is fast becoming popular in Congress, involving the guaranteed destruction of a certain number of weapons whenever a new one is deployed...
...expectations. We have introduced a university reform plan, and there were some protests, but nothing on the scale of the protests in France. In this respect I think that Spanish society has a greater intellectual virginity. The citizens want the problems solved in general, but they have no preconceived notion of how they should be solved. They just want them solved...
...delicacy of the recovery and worries about the problems in international finance caused by huge debts in developing countries have been adding strength to the notion of keeping Paul Volcker on the job. In the financial community Volcker is regarded as something of a demigod because he brought down inflation, strengthened the dollar and set the stage for the euphoric bull market in stocks that began last August. Nearly 80% of 702 executives polled by the investment firm A.G. Becker Paribas gave their vote of confidence to Volcker, with Alan Greenspan a distant second at 5.8%. Monetarist Milton Friedman...
...Ambassador to Honduras John Negroponte dismisses the notion that Alvarez really rules Honduras, calling it "a myth that serves the stereotypical view of Central Americans." Still, the return to civilian rule has left a tempting power vacuum. Business and labor leaders know that if they want anything done quickly they must go to the general because problems referred to the President's office all too often become entangled in bureaucratic red tape. The Honduran Congress, which was restored in 1982, has been timid about exercising its constitutional powers, although the recent U.S.-Honduran military talks may prompt reluctant legislators...