Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overall differences are so slight," said OEO, "that we can conclude performance contracting was no more effective in either reading or math than the traditional classroom methods of instruction." OEO stressed that the findings do not mean that the idea is necessarily wrong, but it added that "an uncritical rush to embrace the concept is unwarranted at this time...
...Jago, the pity of it Mr. Iago--and what a name, at once insidious and insinuating--is that you judge too impetuously and are too quick to rush to judgment (Crimson 2-2-72). Since you gratuitously advertise yourself as a scholar, you might have waited for my piece--which was promised at the end of the Crimson interview--to appear before your headlong rush into obscurantist, peremptory certitudes. Not, I notice from your rigid cold war stance, that it would have made much difference to your ossified dogmatism on the matter. Only it might have made your tenuous pretension...
...Border Rush. U.S. officials say that the pact provides an unfair trade advantage for Canada. To increase the sales of U.S.-made cars, they want to scrap the 1964 ratio and the tariff on cars imported by anyone but a dealer...
...said one official, "there would be no incentive for car manufacturers to stay in Canada." Because of higher taxes, a smaller market and other factors, Canadian-built cars retail for $200 to $800 more than equivalent models made in the US. The Trudeau government is afraid that Canadians would rush across the border to buy U.S. cars if the tariff were dropped. Finally, the auto pact has become a symbolic issue in Canadian politics and could affect the outcome of the federal election that is expected next June. Canada's auto-parts industry and its 120.000-member...
...strike vote this week unless G.M. makes concessions. Money is not the issue; the workers earn about $4.50 an hour, plus $2.50 in fringes. What the union wants is a redefinition of the work rules that will result in some rehiring and elimination of extra chores, which workers claim rush them as the autos move by at an average of one every 36 seconds. G.M. added some of these chores partly in the hope of alleviating the mind-numbing boredom of endlessly doing just one task...