Word: teach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...received no formal schooling until he entered the University of Berlin. There he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, becoming as conversant with Kant as with Moses. In 1932 he moved to Boston as chief Orthodox rabbi and founder of a pioneering day school. He later began commuting to teach in New York. A widower, he has two daughters and one son, who is a scholar of Jewish history...
...argument is based on the assumption that the ratio of educated volunteers to total volunteers is a constant. It isn't. The Armed Forces may be attracting more volunteers, but it isn't necessarily attracting more, qualified volunteers. That's why there is continuing pressure to lower standards, to teach weapons to deal with illiterates rather than the other way around...
Lampoon President Conan C. O'Brien '85 described the program, saying it was like "inviting a Lampoon editor into your home and asking him to teach you math...
...conclude that by consenting to the Labor Department's proposal, Prudential has made life a little more equitable for everyone. It certainly did not make things more equitable for its policyholders, who have to fork out $3 million to teach misfits who could not be educated by the school system. Furthermore, it tells minority children, "Do not try. The Government will pay you $3.35 an hour to learn after...
...Teach-yourself products are especially popular. K-Tel's three instruction records and cassettes have sold more than 2 million copies since May. So far, at least five paperback books have hit the shelves...