Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carl Sagan is the best thing to happen to science education since Sputnik...
...nearby planets, under the tutelage of the late Gerard Kuiper. He realized that planets were the most likely places for extraterrestrial life to be found in his lifetime. He also anticipated that the U.S. would soon embark on an ambitious program of planetary exploration. At a party just before Sputnik I spurred American space activity, Sagan made a perspicacious wager: he bet a case of chocolate bars that the U.S. would reach the moon by 1970. He won with five months to spare...
...academic effectiveness of the system was challenged in 1957, when the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik satellite. Almost overnight, it was perceived that American training was not competitive with that of the U.S.S.R. Public criticism and government funds began to converge on U.S. schools. By 1964, achievement scores in math and reading had risen to an alltime high. But in the '60s the number of students (and teachers too) was expanding tremendously as a result of the maturing crop of post-World War II babies. In the decade before 1969, the number of high school teachers almost doubled, from...
...Soviets test-launch their first intercontinental ballistic missile more than a year ahead of the American program. Then comes Sputnik, galvanizing the alliance into trying to meet the growing Soviet nuclear threat...
...Loan Act was passed in 1916, Government credit programs have helped borrowers who could not obtain money from regular savings institutions. One of the most successful was the Rural Electrification Administration, which, beginning in 1936, provided the money that lighted American farm communities. More recently, Dwight Eisenhower's Sputnik- inspired student loan program helped deserving kids go to college. Federal agencies frequently lend money directly on bargain terms. Some Farmers Home Administration credits carry interest rates of 1%. More often, the Government guarantees loans from private sources, such as the proposed $1.5 billion line of credit to Chrysler...