Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three days a week students learn math, science and English. On the other days they may be dangled off a cliff, abandoned two miles deep in a cave or locked in a padded cell. At Butler High School in western Pennsylvania, this harsh treatment is known as stress education for "in-school dropouts"-the disruptive students and juvenile offenders...
...above is even further reflected in the University's concept of diversity. Admissions officers stress the importance of diversity in considering the composition of each class. They actively seek classical musicians, newspaper editors, alumni children, club presidents, farmers, poets, et cetera, all for the sake of a diverse student body. While the concept of diversity is a good one, as administered by Harvard it works against Third World students...
...interesting variety of nineteenth and twentieth century works is being offered this week in concerts in Cambridge and Boston. The invariable tendency to stress the classical and baroque workhorses gives way to an emphasis on Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Ravel and Beethoven. Concerts at Harvard this week also include Schumann, Debussy and plenty of Brahms...
...boss has support where it counts the most. At the signing of the executive order last week, Carter went out of his way to stress "my complete appreciation and confidence in Admiral Stan Turner." Carter sees Turner more often than previous Presidents saw their CIA chiefs. The admiral has briefed the President once or twice a week in hour-long sessions, usually alone. Turner prepares the agenda and spends ten to twelve hours reading background material for each session. According to a presidential aide: "Carter likes Turner's crispness, his grasp, his 'yes sir, no sir,' no-nonsense naval officer...
Because most of the KGB's effort is aimed at free and open Western societies, KGB tacticians stress the use of agents on the ground, instead of electronic intelligence gathering, at which the U.S. is stronger. The KGB excels at recruiting new agents: with only some exaggeration, a West German intelligence expert says, "There is not one place in the world where the KGB does not have its man." Indeed, Superspy Colonel Rudolf Abel, apprehended in New York in 1957, was found to command a vast net work of agents that ranged over the entire North American continent. Today...