Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learn the same thing, and teaching may get worse. The dull hate learning more than ever, and the bright suffer because standards fall. In the end, this simply costs more money, requires more teachers, and produces fewer truly educated people. Machlup's idea is to compress the entire span of education so that students finish high school by the age of 15, and college by 18. Not only would this save $12 billion a year, he says, but it would sharply improve U.S. education...
...most of the yardsticks used to measure the performance of college presidents, Quigg Newton has done an admirable job during his six years at the University of Colorado. Faculty salaries have risen 70% during that span, expenditure per student 90%, graduate enrollment 100%, library spending 160%. But when confronted with a campus crisis involving strong political feelings, President Newton, former Democratic mayor of Denver, flunked political science...
...Oklahoma, two psychiatrists and a zoologist pumped an elephant full of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a psychotomimetic drug. According to the latest issue of Science, they chose the subject for the experiment "because of his remarkable intelligence, his extended life span, his capacity for highly organized group relationships, and his extraordinary psychobiology in general. His fate was horrible and brief...
...Dotson Seven One." In a short span of time we had prepared our maps and flight logs. We knew exactly where we would be every second of our flight. We also knew the exact amount of fuel that would be required for the mission, and the frequencies to be used to contact the various radio stations en route. I knew my target complex as well as I know my own home town...
...anonymity. Unfortunately, these promises are not kept. What evolves is a faint melodramatic paraphrase of Playwright Hayes's The Desperate Hours; instead of a hoodlum holding a family at gunpoint for 48 hours, the corporate raider holds an entire board of directors at penpoint for the same time span...