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Students at the Garthar B. Peterson Elementary School in Atlanta used to dread standardized achievement tests. But this spring, when testing time came, their principal staged a pep rally and promised them a trophy and a party if they did well. It worked. When the results came in, the Peterson school had something to cheer about: after years in the doldrums, more than half its students scored above national norms in reading...
Brown head coach, Cliff Stevenson, the only coach in Brown lacrosse history, decided he'd seen just about enough of starting goalkeeper Colin Finch and called time out for the substitution and a little pep talk. Whether it was the presence of Meister in the nets or Stevenson's words, from then on all systems were go for the Brown middies and attackmen...
...office. A monotonous drizzle formed puddles on the city's streets. But the weather was still warm and the rain did not dampen Reagan's spirits. At an early morning breakfast with 140 sub-Cabinet-level officials of his Administration in the East Room, Reagan gave a pep talk. He quoted Thomas Paine, declaring, "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." Then followed short meetings with his senior staff in the Oval Office and a national security briefing. All were in the normal workday pattern...
...reshuffle of command oaths and indoctrinations radical ideology 13 percent cut important legitimacy Don't exaggerate anti-Vietnam united front not about to leave neutralized grand gesture capital spending on the skids US recession Germany's slump Deutsche Bank fight inflation tobacco and alcoholic beverages oil revenues bank profits pep up hoteliers pomp and pegeantry Wedgwood Royal Doulton Ulster Weaving Company Lloyds of London petroleum Fao crossfire sabotaged oil revenue transit fees paper packaging newsprint 1.5 billion dollars capital spending about 1 per cent 400 million dollars less expanding most oil firms big changes are need imported autos color videocassette...
...President did his part last week to keep the sales pressure on. He invited key members of Congress into the Oval Office for 20-minute pep talks, held a cocktail party for a dozen legislators and their wives and spoke with 25 Republicans he is counting on heavily to push his bills. Reagan also threw a party, including a condensed version of the leggy Broadway hit A Chorus Line, for the nation's Governors and their wives. Thirty-one of the Governors are Democrats, and more than one-third of the budget cuts announced so far by the Administration...