Word: reflective
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Professor of Education and Urban Studies Charles V. Willie viewed the whole report with skepticism and said the proposed testing would be culturally based and would not arculturtly reflect the extent of students education...
Other intangible but no less important indices of national progress reflect well on this Administration. Crime rates are down across the country. SAT scores among high school students have risen. The Los Angeles Olympics-despite a Soviet bloc boycott provoked by the Carter-Mondale Administration became an attend of international joy and celebration. Crackdowns on organized crime and illicit drug tratficking have succeeded at an unprecedented level...
Those glowing income statements reflect both the strength of the U.S. economy and the ever growing pervasiveness of chips. "Semiconductors are here and people now recognize that," says Stephen Zelencik, a senior vice president of Advanced Micro Devices. "They are everywhere, for every reason, in everything." Chips have long since become the most popular components of watches. In cars they monitor antipollution systems and adjust idle speeds. In factories they control robots and automated assembly lines. They are embedded in virtually every major weapons system, where they perform such crucial tasks as aiming guns and navigating flights...
Unpleasant as this sounds, the University may have no other choice. Still, Bok fails to make clear that Harvard has no other option. He states at the onset that the issue of divestment does not "simply reflect a difference of opinion over tactics" but a "dispute over the nature of the University." Divestment may indeed be unacceptable. But the question remains as to whether there will be any tactics at all--or will Harvard simply limit itself to periodic expressions of opposition to apartheid...
...much of September, public opinion polls did not reflect the excitement generated by Ferraro on the stump. Many surveys, in fact, showed an increase in her negative ratings. But the new Times/CRS poll found that the number of voters who view her favorably has jumped 10 points in the past month...