Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report by the N.C.E.E. is already into a third printing, with 81,000 copies distributed. It recommends a basic core curriculum for all high school students, stricter admission requirements for college, longer school days and years, more homework, and the recruiting and rewarding of better teachers. Echoing the Sputnik scare, the report concludes, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed...
...energy of the city behind him, he championed the renaissance of the downtown area. But the mid-70's marked the dissolution of such united optimism, as racial strife tore at the city, while schooling and housing disintegrated. White the progressive became White the boss, as a close scare in the 1975 election induced him to convert his little City Halls into a machine. His image has been further tarnished by the corruption convictions of several key sides, and the ongoing federal investigation of his administration...
...plots against her half-brother Arthur, played by Malcolm McDowell. "I cast spells, fly, disappear at will and have a dungeon that looks like a fully equipped gym. It's every girl's dream," she laughs. Indeed, the only thing she won't do is scare people away with her looks. Admits Bergen: "I'm not wizened with warts. I'm more of a New Wave witch...
Most U.S. analysts played down the significance of reports that the Syrians and, by implication, the Soviets were preparing for war. Said a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington: "We think it's bluster and bluff to scare the hell out of Lebanon not to ratify the agreement with Israel, no more than that." A Western diplomat in Moscow noted that there was no sign that the Soviets had evacuated any dependents from Damascus. That, he added, was "the important thing...
Burton's melancholy mien and burnt-out stance would scare any comic muse off into the wings. His has too long been the gravity of a potentially heroic tragic actor waylaid en route to his destiny. His voice is still a casque of gold, but like that ardent Burton fan, Churchill, he seems always to be addressing a constituency, never a person. Of course, the audience for this Taylor-Burton fandango is undeniably a constituency...