Word: pans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer brain to run through the student's record of instruction and achievement and pick his next drill. One reading drill, for instance, consists of teaching the student to combine the initial sounds r, p and b with the endings an, at and ag, to make ban, pan, ran, bat, pat, rat, bag and rag. As each word flashes on the screen, the taped voice pronounces it. Then, for example, the computer's taped voice asks the student to touch the word ran on the screen with a "light pen." A correct response brings an encouraging "Yes. That...
...these demands seemed unreasonable, they were not much more so than the ones made by 22,000 Transport Workers Union machinsts employed by Pan Am and American Airlines. Under pressure to outdo the rival I.A.M. machinists, the T.W.U. has since July deadlocked contract negotiations with obstinate calls for a 30% wage hike and ghoulish threats of what may happen if their demands are not met. Said one T.W.U. official last week...
...wouldn't want an underpaid airplane mechanic to forget to change a tire, would you?" So far, Pan Am has managed to keep bargaining at a talking stage. But unless recommendations of a Presidential Emergency Board are accepted, American will probably be struck on Sept...
...extending up to New Brunswick, took shape two weeks ago, when the President agreed to meet Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson on Campobello Island in the Bay of Fundy for a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Park. Johnson saw a chance to pan some votes before meeting Pearson and, though his trip was solemnly billed as nonpolitical, his itinerary carried him through five congressional districts where freshman Democrats are threatened...
...Natural Partners." What seemed to concern the ambassador most was Ja pan's attitude toward U.S. efforts to counter Communism in Viet Nam. Said Reischauer: "This is not a war started by us, but by those who believe in world revolution and direct violence. We are being much truer to ideals that the Japanese people profess than you are yourselves. I don't know why Japanese indignation is not turned toward Hanoi. Why is it turned toward...