Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of the banquet of blowouts Super Bowl audiences have been subject to the past five years, this year we got a delicious feast. When Jim Breach kicked a field goal to put the Bengals up, 16-13, with three minutes left in the game, the excitement had only begun...
...seems to me the argument falls on its face. Just pick up any newspaper, on any subject. You have a great problem with the space program. You've got problems with AIDS. You've got problems with savings and loans. Now they're not all going to be rescued or prevented ((from failing)) just by having a more effective civil service. But to say that you can run the Government without any continuity, without any background, without any expertise, I think, logically is deficient...
...learned to read. If children test poorly on a reading comprehension passage about, say, the Mongolian tree iguana, and well on one about a space taxi, it's because they are more interested in space than in life sciences, not necessarily because have read extensively on the subject. Literacy provides the freedom to discover and decide our own interests, which Hirsch constrains by telling us what to know and then shoving it down our throats. He seems to forget that when he demands that certain things be read and taught, he excludes others and discourages personal exploration...
Trump, the 21st person to be featured in TIME's Profile section, is the department's first cover subject. Since the section was introduced 14 months ago, TIME staffers have traveled to northern India to interview the Dalai Lama, to London to speak with hospice pioneer Cicely Saunders and to Cambridge, England, to explore the cosmos with physicist Stephen Hawking. "Since the magazine's founding, one of TIME's great strengths has been to give readers a very strong and multidimensional look at people," says executive editor Ronald Kriss. "Our aim is not just to chronicle what they...
Though Braniff lost $11.4 million for the nine months ending Oct. 31, industry analysts think it can become profitable. But the true ambitions of its owners, an investment group that bought Braniff last June for $105 | million, remain a subject of speculation. The management, says Kevin Murphy, who follows the industry for the Morgan Stanley investment firm, wants "to get this thing to be a viable enterprise and sell it to a major airline. They are not in it for the long run." But at least for the short term, the Braniff logo is going to become a familiar sight...