Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of faultfinding responses have satisfied the authors as much -- well, almost -- as the number of readers. Bloom notes that his purpose was never to offer a full range of solutions but rather to raise questions and, perhaps too, the level of debate. That, both of them have done, along with some hackles. And while some educators concede, however grudgingly, that the bottom line on both books is their extraordinary ability to engage the nation in a renewed dialogue on education, others say the very popularity of the books is the most powerful argument against their theses. For where...
...living room, he was called to the telephone. He returned to tell the group that the nation of Angola was holding a white American pilot and wanted to return him only to Jackson. The impressed voters fell silent. Like some giant gypsy moth, Jackson is drawn to crises, which offer him splendid opportunities for public exposure. Last fall when a race riot erupted at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he was asked to come help calm the campus. When the controversy over too few blacks in baseball management surfaced, Jackson quickly called Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and invited himself...
...high-fashion collections have exploded in a colorful array of stylized, theatrical creations, and in the process have stolen back much of the action from the swaggering ready-to-wear industry. The relentlessly ballyhooed miniskirts, to be sure, are riding high -- very high. But in addition, the couture lines offer daring, bewitching and wacky costumes that pay homage to, . among other things, 17th and 18th century court pageantry, French regional dress and even the movies...
Like other cities you mention in your article "Trapped Behind the Wheel," my former hometown, Washington, suffers from horrendous traffic jams ((LIVING, July 20)). The alternatives you offer commuters are to accept the situation or fight it with little chance of success. My advice: move to a small town. In my new hometown, Albion, Mich. (population approximately 10,000), a traffic jam occurs only when a train goes through, and even then the traffic is cleared in five minutes...
Many of those ideas are too bizarre to meet strict operating standards imposed on the Texas system in 1980 by Federal Judge William Wayne Justice. Nonetheless, entrepreneurs keep trying. Hard times in the oil patch have spurred hucksters to offer up abandoned office buildings, foreclosed motels and warehouses to the corrections department as makeshift pens. A few down- and-out Houstonians are even trying to foist off their homes as mini- detention centers...