Word: substandard
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Although Epton, Mullin, Segal, and Druth, LtD., the Chicago-based law firm representing substandard, no one contends that his restaurants are models of cleanliness. In fact, Dayan's lawyers hoped to base their case on what they felt was selective enforcement of QSC standards by McDonald's. The crux of this argument was not that Dayan's operations were acceptable, but that they were no worse than many other McDonald's throughout the world...
More than 60 members of the newly formed Harvard Tenants Union gathered last night at the Cambridge Public Library to protest rent increases and alleged substandard housing conditions...
Lewis Armistead, Harvard's community relations representative, said last night he found the charges against Harvard Real Estate "difficult to believe." He refused to comment on the tenant union's claims of substandard housing. Sally Zeckhauser, president of HRE, and Lorraine Wade, tenant relations director for HRE, were unavailable for comment...
...psychological warfare against poor people." Says Jackson: "It's fueling the meanness mania in this country. It suggests something negative about the character of poor people." Because there are so few jobs around, some critics fear that workfare will force welfare recipients to labor for low pay in substandard conditions...
...whose solution seems fairly straightforward is the matter of illiterate and uninformed teachers. Competency tests can-and should-be administered to screen out teachers, old as well as novice, who lack basic skills. Such screening would benefit pupils, but it would also put pressure on marginal colleges to flunk substandard students bound for a career in teaching. Indiana University Education Professor David Clark asks rhetorically: "Is it more important to make it easy for kids to reach professional level, or to have good teachers?" Pressure is also needed to ensure adequate funding for teacher training. As a typical example...