Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after doing two hours of homework, Molly sits down at the piano and practices for an hour. She'll barely have enough time to eat dinner and touch up that book report before crashing. "With less work I think we could learn what we're learning now," Molly says. "But I don't think it's too overwhelming." The strain of homework weighs more heavily on her mother. "I didn't feel [stressed] until I was in my 30s," says Libby, 43. "It hurts my feelings that my daughter feels that...
...math and science education in the U.S. to counter the threat of Soviet whiz kids. Students frolicked in the late 1960s and '70s, as homework declined to near World War II levels. But fears about U.S. economic competitiveness and the publication of A Nation at Risk, the 1983 government report that focused attention on the failings of American schools, ratcheted up the pressure to get tough again. Other forces have kept the trend heading upward: increasing competition to get into the best colleges and the batteries of statewide standardized tests--starting in grade school in a growing number of states...
Your article "Five Ways Out," accompanying your series on tax incentives and subsidies for companies [SPECIAL REPORT: CORPORATE WELFARE, Nov. 30], mentioned Hobart Corp., a unit of PMI Food Equipment Group, stating that in 1995 the company moved its Dayton, Ohio, plant to Piqua, Ohio, as a result of tax incentives, and that employees had only three days' notice before the closing. In fact, the relocation decision occurred only after Hobart determined that its Dayton facility was antiquated and inefficient. The move would have occurred regardless of any tax incentives, which to date have been less than...
...Your report on what it cost the city of Phoenix, Ariz., to encourage Sumitomo Sitix of Japan to locate a silicon-wafer plant there was intellectually dishonest in describing what occurred [SPECIAL REPORT: CORPORATE WELFARE, Nov. 23]. You ignored the fact that this company brought 400 new high-tech jobs and an annual payroll of $14 million to a section of Phoenix that offered few employment opportunities. You failed to note the additional wealth created by yearly payments to vendors of $10 million, a $1 million payment to Phoenix for development and impact fees and $5 million in construction sales...
Unhealthy health food? Although growers are trying to eliminate the risk of salmonella poisoning from alfalfa sprouts, scientists report it's not so easy. The bacteria, it turns out, may hide in tiny crevices in the seeds. The most susceptible to getting sick: the very young, the elderly and folks with weak immune systems...