Word: sheet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nothing wrong with getting children off to a quick start by developing their thinking, organizational and creative skills. Problems arise when we demand visible, measurable signs of progress in these youngsters, who can neither read nor write. The child who marks all the pictures correctly on a work sheet shows only what he already knows, but if he plays at building a bridge, he demonstrates that he is learning
...fact, by the calculations of Mather's House Committee, which prepared a fact sheet for Thursday's meeting, the present House system is currently accommodating 14 fewer students than it is theoretically capable of--which means that some Houses are relatively uncrowned while others have very high levels of pain. If accurate, this figure raises serious doubts as to whether the College has enough space to house its students--is University Hall taking as its status quo a situation which students, perhaps quite rightly, consider unacceptable...
...deciding against strict import quotas, Reagan turned down the recommendations of the U.S. International Trade Commission. It said in July that the domestic industry was being damaged by imports and urged a five-year program of high tariffs and quotas for such important products as sheet and strip steel, plate and wire. Reagan would have none of it. Quotas, he said, would do more harm than good to the economy and not "be in the national interest," even though they might temporarily save some jobs in steel. Voluntary restraints seemed to be the only workable...
...Scargill is right in his indignation towards a government that does not look out for its own. If there is any legitimate government regulation, surely it must be to tend to those, who must temporarily suffer from economic shifts and prevent progress from becoming a tyranny of the balance sheet...
...director always seems to be telling his actors: Go bigger, dare more, fill the biggest moviehouse with your passion and technique. Abraham's challenge as Salieri was more daunting. He must be all smoldering menace, a dandy in smirking repose-until, one day, he scans some scribbled Mozart sheet music, and tears of astonishment and fury course down his cheeks. Says Abraham, who has played in everything from Shakespeare to Scarface to a leotarded leaf in the Fruit of the Loom TV spots: "Salieri is a figure tragic in Greek proportions because he enters into a competition with...