Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Columbia defense will have to deal with the overwhelming power of the Crimson offense, which includes Laurie Uustal, Jen Minkus and Johnston, a proven Lion-killer...
Some of the plan's supporters have said that its basic premise of "change-through-aid" was proven effective in America's postwar economic intervention in Western Europe and Japan. Many Soviet scholars, however, explain that a number of factors make the Soviet situation unique. Not only is the region in a period of extraoridnary political instability, but it is also divided along ethnic and cultural lines that make centralized reforms difficult. Furthermore, the Soviets may have considerable difficulty in establishing market mechanisms, such as a system of private property, after 74 years of central planning--a factor which critics...
...issue of cost. To develop and administer national tests may take a great deal of money -- far more than the Bush Administration is requesting. The Administration is silent about who would pay for that, and how. The cost factor could mean brutal triage -- spend scarce education dollars for proven winners like the Head Start Program or for an abstraction to measure achievement whose value might not be apparent for years...
...forcefully made last month in a letter to Cheney signed by 54 Senators from both parties. They charged that the Defense chief's plans to downsize the Guard "fail to recognize ((its)) cost-effectiveness . . . and, in effect, discards the Total Force policy at the precise time it has proven successful...
...demands are even worse. During training, Wylie must travel 40 minutes each way to Acton, Mass. for practices that are often four hours long. In addition, the "Eat-To-Win" diet has proven difficult to keep up in the Eliot House dining hall...