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From a teacher's or administrator's point of view these projects are acceptable as long as a student learns addition and sentence structure. But if these projects must be oriented toward the teacher's chosen goal they accomplish only the smallest improvement. The classroom is less gruesome but the child is still not in control of his own life...
...what of the Americans, who with five men and four women constituted one of the smallest teams in Nagoya? They finished 21st in the women's standings, an even more lackluster 28th in the men's. Where table tennis is concerned, the U.S. is still not far from the basement...
...team worked out every day for the last month and a half," coach Alice McCabe said Wednesday, "and we've been in the water since November. We don't have a Physical Education program, of course, and with a student body of only 1200 we were probably the smallest college out there...
...times of emergency. On the other hand, the latest cost of living figures might lead policymakers to think that they could stimulate business without risking much extra inflation. Consumer prices in February rose at an annual rate of 2.4%, down from 3.6% in January; the rise was the smallest since last August. Politically, a tax cut would be even more tempting than usual. The latest polls show Nixon's popularity at a record low, with the performance of the economy his weakest point and persistent unemployment especially dismaying to voters...
...claims that the scientific dispute is neatly consigned to irrelevance by the observation that "if one group of scientists is correct, we have lost $5 billion, if the other is correct, we might lose 30,000,000 lives." Scientists have convincingly argued that there is only the smallest chance that the ABM-the most technologically complex system devised, one that will have to work in perfect split-second synchronization the first time it is used-will be a success, especially considering the trial and error process such lesser technological feats as the M-16 rifle and the F-111 went...