Word: standards
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Train Talk. Reagan raced through his old standard speech, which he had honed with some new sarcastic edges. He accused President Ford of being soft on inflation and Big Government spending, noting that "it took this nation 166 years, until the middle of World War II, to finally accumulate a debt of $95 billion. It took the Administration just the last twelve months to add $95 billion to the debt...
TIME Correspondent John Stacks reviewed the six volumes so far finished (but not all published). His conclusion: the commission, by its own grand standard, failed. But it failed in a fascinating way. In one area of national concern after another -economics, ecology, raw materials, food, health, population, energy, trade, technology, national security-the commission paid some of the best minds in the country to wrestle with the contemporary condition. (Six more studies on various regions of the world will be completed this year.) By and large, the commission, unlike the two predecessor studies, has been able to offer no broad...
...that they were generally satisfied with their lot. As citizens of the state, the Israeli Arabs have the right to vote, own land, run their own schools and join labor unions. In the past 28 years, their illiteracy rate has plunged from over 80% to 15%, and their living standard has risen dramatically as the government brought paved roads, electricity, running water, technology and communications to once impoverished villages. Today the Israeli Arabs enjoy a standard of living that is not only considerably above that of the average Egyptian or Syrian but also higher than that of Israel's Oriental...
...Berlin. Among those in the audience, however, was Caldwell, and ever since she has been patiently trying to get the money together to stage the opera in Boston. Montezuma is indisputably twelve-tone music's finest hour on the operatic stage. Whether it finds its way into the standard repertory or, like Berg's Wozzeck (which it rivals), stays on the fringes, is something only the years can determine. For now it is enough that Montezuma is a work that imbues the mind with searing resonances...
Other options Pipkin said the committee will consider include requiring a minimum grade-point average in courses outside concentrations and returning to the old standard, which required that students get honors grades in two-thirds of their non-concentration letter-graded courses...