Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competency debate has its analogues in the shift towards more stringent college admissions requirements for instruction in specific subjects and in the thorny issues of equal access raised by the exodus of-well-off families from public to private schools. Reagan, clearly, would have no qualms about stringent basic-competency programs. Chances are, he would argue that such "survival of the fittest" strategies and the resulting drop in unprepared college students would solve the college competency problem far more efficiently than would struggling to improve the high schools. Conditioned to view education as yet another marginal social program draining...
...shift began with Hannah Arendt's work on totalitarianism, Shorris says. Arendt argued that totalitarianism is a greater threat to a society undergoing atomization and "massification." Shorris says that totalitarian society was then projected onto the student radicals of the Sixties: "The mob was coming, and it was coming out of the universities that had given the Jews a way up out of the ghetto...
...would be trusted enough to make the undercover drug buys. Watson would pretend to be a neophyte dealer eager to make a few extra bucks by selling to friends. Often the sales took place in the middle of the night. Watson kept working his regular 8-hr, patrol shift as well as his 4-hr.-a-day outside job as a security guard...
...their tribal homelands. At West Driefontein mine, 1,233 blacks out of a work force of 12,000 were fired and sent home; 2,000 were transported from the Kloof gold mine. Those remaining were warned that their contracts would be revoked if they refused to join their work shift. Said one mine manager: "We'll have no trouble replacing the men who left. It will just take some time to teach them the necessary skills...
...change will shift public attention away from the director, said Counter, allowing him to work with a broad variety of students free of the responsibility for specific funding decisions...