Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students tend to rate Marshfield an easy school. They teach you how to write in tenth grade, but then you don't get to exercise it enough," is an oft-heard lament; so is "They don t push you enough." Senior Brenda Steward is having no trouble fielding trigonometry, chemistry and British literature along with a 30-hour-a-week waitress job at a local restaurant called the Green Bandit. Says she: "Teachers don't assign homework; they don't believe in it." (The teachers' version, however, is that many students will not do homework when it is assigned.) Adds...
Almost half of all students leave school at age 16, after studying as many as a dozen subjects, including a foreign language. Meanwhile, grammar school students continue a rigorous university-oriented curriculum, including English, French, math and science. The elite private schools, even more demanding, routinely push students through 13 subjects...
...assignment of Italian Designer Carlo Rambaldi, the man who made King Kong in the 1976 film. "The idea was that they will be perhaps 100,000 years ahead of us in the process of evolution," he explains. "They don't use their arms any more except to push buttons, but they do use their minds much more than we do. So the arms are small, but the head is very large. In their own world they probably communicate with fellow creatures by mental telepathy, so ears are very tiny. They don't need larger ears to gather...
That definition makes dumping cases difficult to prove. The Treasury Department must determine production costs ?and Japanese steelmakers have refused to supply them. Dumping investigations also can take a year to 15 months to complete. Nonetheless, U.S. manufacturers are making a growing effort to push the Government to crack down on dumping...
...bring out a new '78 model, the Concord. It is a luxury compact that, with options, sells for as much as $5,200?roughly comparable to the price of the fast-selling subcompacts, Honda's Accord and Volkswagen's Rabbit. Meyers believes AMC must now focus its sales push on the Concord to the maximum. He told TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold a bit hyperbolically: "Concord is a runaway success; we will make 100,000. In the past we got drunk on success and started chasing something else. We're not going to make that mistake with Concord...