Word: subjecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case on campus generally. The complaints of insensitivity increase, but the level of dialogue does not. As concerns focus increasingly on language and attitudes towards race and gender, as opposed to discrimination, it seems that there is precious little in the way of talking or thought on the subject. We speak to ourselves...
...pictures are both bleakly comic and defiantly romantic, hipper than tomorrow and nostalgic for a pre-AIDS era when love's most toxic complication was a broken heart. "To classify movies is to impoverish them," he says. "Law of Desire was about a gay couple. But passion is the subject. I was trying to tell a love story...
Gardner, an author of books and essays on math, also puts much of the blame on teachers -- particularly at the elementary level, where many classrooms are run by people with little or no math training. "When a class is taught by a teacher not interested in the subject," he notes, "then the class is bored also." Another setback for numbers proficiency, Gardner argues, was infatuation with the new math that emerged during the 1950s. Says he: "Youngsters were learning all kinds of advanced things, but not basic math...
...wild. So the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, which breeds the chimps and contracts them out to research organizations, charges customers $30,000 per animal to set up what amounts to a retirement plan to defray the cost of caring for the primates during their golden years. While subject to experiments, the chimps live alone in huts, but when their brief working lives are over, they are gathered into colonies of eight or ten in in-door-outdoor block houses that give them room to romp. Says foundation official Jorg Eichberg: "They lead a very normal life...
...most talked about subject in Washington last week was not the Bush transition, the budget deficit or the woes of Mayor Marion Barry, but one that is close to the heart of every bureaucrat -- and every American: pay raises. A salary-review board has proposed hefty pay hikes for 3,000 top Government officials, including Cabinet officers, federal judges and the 535 members of the House and Senate. The whole pay package -- including a 51% raise, to an annual $135,000, for members of Congress -- will cost $300 million in its first year. Even as the Bush Administration begins...