Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Barbarosa and The Challenge trace the search for a spiritual father who will teach the male lessons of energy and discipline. The films mean to display these virtues as well and get a head start toward that goal by casting, as the mentors, Willie Nelson and, in The Challenge, Toshiro Mifune, two sternly noble faces worthy of being carved on any cinematic Rushmore. Each man carries an aura of stolid grace and flashing moral strength...
...competency program, the outcry against the tests has focused inevitably on equal opportunity. The hapless 17-year-olds stuck in seventh grade for he third or fourth time, critics have cried, are being denied their rights under a system penalizing them for learning little from schools that can barely teach literacy. The perfectly serious effort to defeat the "right" to a high school diploma, even for someone who cannot read or write, baffled many equal opportunity supporters and did damage to equal opportunity as an ideal...
...provided military training for Honduran officers and sent about 50 military advisers to Honduras to teach local troops counterinsurgency techniques, but has otherwise kept a low profile. Faced with depressed prices for exports like meat and metals, the ailing Honduran economy is hard pressed to finance helicopters and other military equipment required to push the antiguerrilla campaign. President Suazo Córdova journeyed to Washington last week to seek an increase in the level of U.S. military assistance (currently $10.6 million) and economic aid ($48 million). President Reagan told Suazo Cordova that he hoped to give Honduras $17 million...
...were transported from the Kloof gold mine. Those remaining were warned that their contracts would be revoked if they refused to join their work shift. Said one mine manager: "We'll have no trouble replacing the men who left. It will just take some time to teach them the necessary skills...
...center hopes eventually to develop a press curriculum for the K-School. Officials also plan to bring journalists in to teach and take courses...