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...students presented Patrick and Vautin with a list of demands relating to employment issues throughout the University and a 500-signature petition requesting a University-wide policy of "not accepting bids from substandard contractors," according to Joshua L. Oppenheimer...
What's gone wrong? "Lots," says Zigler. With 47% of Head Start instructors earning only about $10,000 a year, attracting good teachers is a serious obstacle. Other problems involve lack of training, substandard facilities and short hours; most programs operate half days or less. More important, since most Head Start programs serve only four-year-olds for a single year, the positive effects fade away by the first grade. Most experts suggest a two-year program that begins at age three, with follow-up instruction that lasts through the fourth grade. A plan worth its promise would not only...
...only conclude that either: (1) Mayo was not at the game and therefore did not know what the crowd was like, or (2) he expected the Harvard crowd to be substandard, and when he found otherwise, decided that a good idea for an editorial should not be wasted in the name of accuracy. Either way, The Crimson loses...
British Transport Secretary John MacGregor called the prevalence of substandard vessels an "international disgrace" -- a statement corroborated, oddly enough, by the oil industry. A report by Shell Petroleum indicated that 20% of the world's oil fleet was suitable only for "the scrapyard." At the moment, the world's seaways are becoming scrap-yards. Even as politicians debated what to do, the Maersk Navigator, a Danish supertanker that collided with a ship near Sumatra two weeks ago, was still burning -- and still spewing...
...reasons, more health services per capita than those currently insured. First, it's safe to assume that the 33 million uninsured are among America's poorest citizens. As a result, their living conditions and, for those who are employed, their working conditions are more likely to be substandard. In addition, uninsured Americans can't afford preventative medicine, and consequently a new system must devote disproportionate amount of resources to remedy conditions that have gone untreated for years. Second, cost-sharing by the currently uninsured may be impossible--again because these are 33 million of America's least wealthy--and free...