Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Admittedly, this switch to recognized authorities cuts out the younger, more extreme writers, and narrows the range of coffeetable magazines. "If literary America has really touched bottom," says Noah, "they should be encouraging young writers to write great essays, not turning to the established writers...
There may also be some resistance among the CLAIS members to switch to an interdisciplinary concentration, as such a move might take them away from their current departments. "The members of the committee don't want Latin American studies to be a department because I think they feel that their own disciplines are pretty well taken care of," says Lili Wadsworth, assistant to the chairman of the committee...
School, in effect, sorts out the young. All students attend classes through the eighth grade, when they take a battery of tests that determine the next step. For many families, this is a time of great anxiety, replete with tutors hired at $13.50 an hour. Low scorers usually switch into a vocational school, lasting one to two years, that prepares them for factory and service jobs. Those who fare better on the exams gain admission to a more advanced training school that usually lasts four years and turns out electricians, factory foremen and the like. Good students finish high school...
...approved plans to start two new nuclear plants this year. Mitterrand is pressing ahead despite predictions that France may not need all the electricity that the nuclear reactors could generate. To spur demand for atomic power, the state-run electric company is offering low prices to businesses that switch from oil and gas heat to electricity. Currently, petroleum accounts for 46.5% of France's total energy consumption, and nuclear reactors supply 23%. According to government projections, by the year 2000, nuclear power will provide 30% of the country's energy, and petroleum only 27%. Some time this year...
...Force and the Navy justified their new choice of engine suppliers on a need to diversify contractors, to ensure competition, and thus to enhance quality. This may very well be true: but Sen. Kennedy's labeling of this switch to GE as a "great victory for the American taxpayer" should be seen for what it is--an unabashed play for hometown votes. Senators and representatives necessarily operate under certain restrictions, and one of these has always been constituent pressure. Tip O'Neill, Alan Cranston, and Edward Kennedy are no exceptions to this rule. When defense "pork barrels" look...