Word: reasons
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sugar subsidy, which amounted to $190 million last year, as the difference be tween hope and disaster in Cuba. If it goes, the diplomats reason, Castro will be left with the spiraling economic chaos that his helter-skelter reforms have made...
...reason is the teacher shortage, another the gnat-bitten nature of the U.S. English teacher's job. Instead of teaching young minds how to put meaning into words, he must pressure-cook a stew of abstract facts for easily graded objective tests geared to handle swelling classes. The average U.S. English teacher meets 175 students daily in five classes. Should he assign one theme a week to each class, he would spend four hours a night seven nights a week, plus half the weekend, correcting papers...
...Reported that Russian will be included in C.E.E.B.'s achievement tests. Russian is now being taught by 96 member colleges, as well as 400 U.S. secondary schools. ¶ Admitted 50 secondary schools (and 37 more colleges) to C.E.E.B. membership for the first time. Reason: with more curriculums based on college tests, the schools want a voice in running C.E.E.B. ¶ Heard a prediction from C.E.E.B. President Frank Bowles that the average U.S. college within 25 years will boost requirements by one full year-applying the same standards to incoming freshmen as it does now to sophomores...
...Dough Veteran Richard Clark was even angrier than Cohn, and for a different reason. In his 1958 appearances on the air, Clark won $22,500, but the producers' admission that the show was crooked, said he, has damaged his reputation. Reason: his friends will not believe that he was not in on the fix. He filed a $500,000 suit against NBC, the show's producers (Barry & Enright Productions) and the sponsor (Procter & Gamble). What's more, argued Clark, his eye on an even bigger payoff, the fix cost him a possible $40,000 in winnings...
...only conceivable reason for further participation in any of the NSF programs is that the University's money is not involved. But this is not, and should not be, the basis of the decision. Rather, it should be based on freedom of belief. Harvard must do everything in its power to ensure that inquiry into belief is not a concomitant of Federal aid to education...