Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spence said that Reagan Administration actions such as preventing technical papers from being read at international conferences have had a "chilling effect" on science...
...twofold. On the one hand to remove archaicism from the paper, and on the other to confront people with the fact that language does carry biases, and that these biases matter. Its impact was intended to influence those who work on the paper as much as those who read it. But the impact was negated...
...several mornings before he left, Reagan brought his friendly squirrels a double ration of acorns. He spread them out on the veranda beyond his window and watched the scramble. His staff found a squirrel-size sign that read BEWARE OF DOGS and placed it along the squirrel path. When President-elect Bush came around for his final minutes with his old mentor and boss, Reagan pointed out the sign, mindful that the Bushes will move in with a pregnant English springer spaniel named Millie and before long the grounds will swarm with puppies. "I'll keep the sign right there...
...fight against illiteracy has become such a crusade in the U.S. that another enemy seems to have slipped past the ramparts while everyone has been learning to read. Bruce R. Vogeli, chairman of the department of mathematics and science education at Columbia University Teachers College, calls this foe the "major untouched educational issue of the decade." Science writer Martin Gardner (The Relativity Explosion) finds it a "problem that is getting worse and worse." Its name: innumeracy, or the inability to understand numbers and their meaning...
...into Polish factories. The committee eventually voted to invite Solidarity back into the fold, but not without a harness. According to the three-page document, the government is "in favor of lifting -- under conditions of a national agreement -- restrictions on establishing trade unions." Among the conditions that the unions (read Solidarity) must meet: renouncing all foreign financial support -- including U.S. aid -- and vowing to suppress any attempt by its members to hold public demonstrations or marches. The statement proposes that the timetable for introducing trade-union pluralism should be reached at "round- table talks" that include the government, Solidarity leader...