Word: one-way
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...One-Way Busing. In Boston's bitter school battle, 16 different proposals have so far been submitted in response to U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity's order for citywide desegregation next fall. The plan that has the most substantial support would require suburbs with declining enrollments and empty school seats to take students from Boston. Such a plan-involving voluntary, one-way busing-was introduced in the Massachusetts legislature last month; it has the backing of new Governor Michael Dukakis and Boston Mayor Kevin White. It would involve relatively small numbers of students and would...
...One-Way Universe...
...terrible surprise" indeed! Under the old expanding-contracting theory, man could always look forward to a second chance in 30 billion years or so. Now, with a one-way street, perhaps we ought to do it right the first time...
...while about 1000 foreign books were translated into Japanese in 1973, less than fifty Japanese books were translated into English. Commenting on this state of affairs, Gibney writes, "Unlike the outgoing cultural explorer of the Meiji Era, the modern Japanese is like a man living in a house with one-way windows, quite clear from within, but opaque to the outside viewer...
...first photonovelist (he has graced The Box Man with nine of his own photos), equipped wherever he goes with a periscope-like camera and tape recorder. And, while he is one of the select few to be translated into English, Abe the technocrat and his box man narrator--both hopelessly intertwined--are the epitome of the man in the house with one-way windows. Abe's cold, logical precision is the summation of all the statistics that point toward Japan's industrial and cultural decline...