Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kicked footballs with his toe then, but now his employers, the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL, want him to kick with his instep, soccer style. They figure he will be a better kicker that way. They also figure that this is the time to teach him new tricks: McInally broke his leg and fractured his ankle in the College All-- Star Game last August, and has sat out the season thus...
...must disclaim its pretensions that it can resolve fundamental social problems or provide a tremendous range of worthy services. Officials should attempt to lower expectations-or at least shift them toward other levels of government that have some hope of satisfying these expectations." If the crisis really does teach the city to match its swollen expectations to its shrunken means, New York-with its rich concentration of talents and resources -might pioneer a new way of life for the American city...
...supervisors, all charged with much the same responsibilities. The report notes: "Consequently the probability of no one doing a job is as great as having five people do it." Nearly one-third of the 74,393 employees of the board of education are classified as nonpedagogical: they do not teach. Many teachers aspire to administrative ranks where the work is easier, the pay is higher, and bothersome students are remote. Says Mary McAulay, a veteran teacher: "If 110 Livingston Street [headquarters of the board of education] were moved to Afghanistan, the classroom teacher would be unaffected...
Arther Ferrill, associate chairman of the University of Washington's history department, said yesterday that Bynum will become a tenured associate professor there and teach medieval history...
...York City's financial crisis has made it into the national news. For months the city's agonies had been relegated to the business sections of papers elsewhere, and John Chancellor and Walter Cronkite had barely mentioned them. But an approaching presidential election and an administration determined to teach a spendthrift Congress a lesson have rescued New York from oblivion. Now people outside the state care if New York sinks: Ford is promoting its collapse...