Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growth, in fact, may actually slow down economic growth because it impedes human development. Sri Lanka had to shut down its free medical services this year because too many people needed them. Ghana's schools must turn away one child in three, and even then can barely afford to teach the other two to read...
Even the country's leftist students and teachers, who initially welcomed the coup, are unhappy. The universities have been closed, and 60,000 students have been ordered off to the countryside to teach "reading, writing and rural regeneration" to the peasantry. "We have exchanged feudal tyranny for socialist tyranny," one student recently complained to TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs...
...those who have high blood pressure, the outlook is bright. Exercise and diet groups to help hypertensives shape up are in operation in most major cities and many smaller communities. Researchers at Rockefeller University and other institutions are experimenting with biofeedback* to teach hypertensives to dilate their arteries and lower their blood pressures slightly. A Boston physician, Dr. Herbert Benson, has taught some of his patients to reduce their blood pressure by means of what he calls "relaxation response," a sort of transcendental-meditation technique...
...have my preliminary reactions regarding the need for more work with proctors, tutors and students. As suggested, I'll meet with Dan [Steiner '54, general counsel to the University] and Chase [Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development] on this before getting back to you. (If you teach, I'll promise not to audit...
...well that he ended up as an executive vice president. But like Wallace Stevens at that Hartford insurance company, Ammons wrote poetry in his spare time, published some of it and waited. Then in 1964 he gave a reading at Cornell, and someone asked why he did not teach. He countered, "Why don't you offer me a job?" They did. Now, at 48, he is a full professor at Cornell, and his collected poems won the National Book Award...