Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of English and Comparative Literature Walter Kaiser, chairman of the advisory committee, says the families operate under the system of mezzadria, where laborers agree to farm the land and surrender a negotiated portion of their crops to the farm's owner. Kaiser calls the dictionary translation of mezzadria-- "sharecropping"--a distortion of the concept...
...more caricature and people will see it as the age-old debate between free market and central planning. That will be fairly short-lived. After the election, regardless of who wins. I hope that that element of industrial policy will become quiet for a while, and the more interesting portion of the debate will continue...
...deep at its ticket counters to grab "introductory" fares of $49 to fly anywhere nonstop on the airline's domestic system. At Terminal C of Houston's Intercontinental Airport, Bonnie Hash, 22, stood at the end of a line of 53 people, waiting to swap the return portion of a $425 round-trip ticket to Seattle for a $49 one. "It's inconvenient," said she, "but it's worth the wait." It is still not sure, though, that the flying public will stick with an airline surrounded by so much uncertainty...
...question that expectations for curriculum and standards dropped over the past 20 years. In many schools, the art of diagramming sentences went the way of Wuthering Heights, and survey literature courses were transformed into cotton-candy electives like "Expressions of Love." Nationally, average scores on the verbal portion of SATS dropped more than 50 points from 1963 to 1980. A California survey found that many math and science texts now in use are ten to 20 years old. One book still used as a reference in a second-grade classroom near Cape Canaveral even tips off students: "Soon...
More than 60% of Houston public school teachers taking a competency exam last spring failed. The example is not surprising. Nationwide, education majors tend to come from the lowest strata of students: last year they scored 32 points below the national average on the verbal portion of the SAT test and 48 points lower on the mathematics section. Says James Guthrie, former chairman of the department of education at the University of California at Berkeley: "In the past, the quality of American education was maintained by women and minorities. Now these people can do other things...