Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standard complaint about prison rehabilitation programs is that they do not work. One such program at Leavenworth, the federal prison in Kansas, appears to have worked only too well. Six years ago, Leavenworth launched a computer training course under a federal contract. The computer course became so popular that 58 convicts are enrolled...
...remorseless doubles player once had a standard set of pregame excuses printed up on cards and handed them out to his weekend opposition in the form of a check-off list. Among his selections: Sunday-morning hangover; ill-strung racquet; soggy tennis balls...
...Jersey housewife: "The boys will use it. And if my husband is playing around, at least I'll be able to keep my eye on him." Around the country, the rent-a-court tennis party is beginning to challenge cocktails and the sit-down dinner party as standard entertainment. It is also blossoming as the ideal way to draw large congenial crowds for local benefits, like raising money for the P.T.A. Tennis camps for the young are thriving, as are tennis vacations...
Reliance on Western credit reflects some profound changes in Eastern Europe. Since 1970, when riots by Polish workers protesting higher food prices brought down Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, Soviet-bloc countries have made a determined effort to improve the material standard of living of their people. Encouraged by diplomatic détente, they have developed a voracious appetite for Western products, buying everything from consumer goods to entire factories. One result: the economic woes of the capitalist world, to which Communist planners initially thought they would be immune, by last year made themselves felt on the other side...
...have taken some liberties. Adam and Eve mouth words silently; Abraham speaks Hebrew; Luke, Greek. The voice-over is a word-for-word reading of the Bible in English by such narrators as Alexander Scourby and Orson Welles. The sound track is available in three versions: King James, Revised Standard and New American...