Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee to search for a new Corporation member met over the summer, and President Bok said last week he hopes to reach a decision by the end of the term...
...join the team, then in Chicago, by midnight. The Tigers chartered a jet for Lynn at Ontario (Calif.) International Airport, but rush-hour congestion reportedly stretched his 35-minute drive to an hour and 15 minutes. That proved a costly delay: Lynn's plane did not reach Chicago airspace until...
...formidable alternative to both the auto and airplane is coming: the magnetic-levitation train, or maglev. Supported and propelled by the force of powerful electromagnets, the streamlined maglev could reach speeds of 300 m.p.h. or more. West Germany and Japan are developing prototypes based on different operating systems. One proposed high-speed maglev route in the U.S. is a 230-mile-long link between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, a five-hour auto trip that the maglev could cover in about 70 minutes...
...cost-effective. An annual $500 investment in Head Start, for example, makes it less likely that a child will repeat a grade -- at an average cost to the community of $3,000. Currently, only one out of five eligible children is enrolled in Head Start, and Chapter 1 programs reach only half of those who qualify. The cost of making them available to every child who needs them: $11 billion annually...
...Chinese youth. The trend, he often explains to parents, is a consequence of China's "one couple, one child" policy of population control. The late marriages and subsequent late births encouraged by the policy, he believes, "do not conform to the physiological development of human beings." People reach their sexual prime toward the end of their teens, and are likely to do what comes naturally long before it is officially sanctioned...