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...Carter, Reagan and Anderson were If Carter, Reagan and Anderson were in a boat and it began to sink, who would be saved? The country...
...week by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., Carter has an insignificant 1-point lead over Reagan, 42% to 41%, compared with a 39% to 39% tie at the beginning of the fall campaign. The independent candidacy of Congressman John Anderson, however, has continued to sink, just as so many political experts in both parties predicted it would from the start. His share of the vote dropped from 15% in early September...
Supporters see bilingual ed as a vast improvement over the sink-or-swim school techniques that Americanized earlier immigrants. Says Awilda Orta, director of New York City's office of bilingual education: "People who feel good about their past heritage will be more productive citizens." But critics regard bilingual education as expensive, inefficient and above all unAmerican. Says Diane Ravitch of Columbia University's Teachers College: "There are cases of third-generation Puerto Ricans in bilingual classes. That just doesn't make sense...
...havens are investments that enable people to generate paper losses to write off against their regular income, thus shielding the investor's cash from the full bite of the IRS. A person making $100,000 a year, for example, might sink $30,000 in a tax shelter that would lower his taxable income in the first year to perhaps $85,000. Since at least half of the $30,000 would have gone to the IRS had it not been sheltered, the investor really gets his investment at half price. And it usually continues to generate write-offs for several...
...command leaping across 164 million miles of space. With that, Viking Orbiter 1, which has been faithfully circling Mars once every 47½ hours for the past four years, expelled its last puff of steering gas. No longer maneuverable, its electrical systems silenced, the unmanned spacecraft will now slowly sink until it finally crashes into Mars some time after the year...