Word: standardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public education, geography has long been destiny. Crippled by limited staffs and tight budgets, rural districts have often found it impossible to offer courses such as Russian and physics that are considered standard by their more cosmopolitan counterparts. Now all that is changing, thanks to the arrival of the electronic classroom. By using interactive video, even small, disadvantaged schools are gaining access to the most sophisticated instruction available, and all without losing the human touch...
...with the "best scholar" operating as Harvard's standard for promotions, junior faculty who have spent a large part of their seven years here teaching or doing committee work say they are disadvantaged...
...Price Waterhouse also had reason to celebrate. The court found that the firm had earlier been held to too high a standard of proof in rebutting Hopkins' claims. Thus, when the case is reheard in a lower federal court, Price Waterhouse's task will be somewhat less onerous. Instead of having to present "clear and convincing evidence" that it declined to promote Hopkins for nondiscriminatory reasons, the firm will only be required to back that claim with a "preponderance" of evidence -- a less rigorous standard...
...Shaker to oversee preparations for parliamentary elections in the near future, which should bring a degree of democracy to a largely authoritarian land. But whatever path the new government takes, the people face several more years of austerity. "Sooner or later, Jordanians will have to adjust to a lower standard of living," admitted a top adviser to the King. "There's no other...
...relatives are no longer satisfied with my standard "what-I-will-do-when-I-grow-up" speech. And I'm not sure I still want to be a police officer or an acrobat...