Word: tens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost exactly ten years ago, in June 1979, that Jimmy Carter signed the last strategic-arms treaty. Ronald Reagan denounced the treaty, then placed in key posts a cadre of ideologues who opposed bargains with the "evil empire." Only under pressure from across the Atlantic did the Reagan Administration enter talks with the Soviets on intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Similarly, when the Administration began a new round of strategic arms talks, the aim was not so much to reach an agreement with Moscow as to outflank the nuclear-freeze movement in the U.S. and to shore up congressional support...
...taught through abstractions that, in the words of one expert, are "void of the complexities of the real world and thus irrelevant and even boring." The results can sometimes be ludicrous. Alan Schoenfeld, an expert on math education at Berkeley, notes that students characteristically answer "seven buses remainder ten" when asked how many 35-passenger buses are needed to transport 255 students. In practical terms, of course, the answer is eight, since the remaining ten students will need another...
...Liberation Army seemed to be everywhere: pouring out of the ancient Forbidden City, poised on the rooftops of the Great Hall of the People and Mao ) Zedong's mausoleum, entering the vast, 100-acre square from side streets in a triple-fanged movement from the south, west and east. Ten thousand strong, the army mounted a deliberately vicious assault...
Under his aggressive leadership, the school's endowment grew from $20 million to over $150 million, the faculty more than tripled, and the number of degree candidates at the school increased from 200 to 800. Ten new research centers were established, and the school celebrated the ground-breaking of its third building...
...School sources say that after a ten-month search, Robert C. Clark will be named as the new Law School dean. Though Clark is widely regarded as a distinguished corporate law scholar, his outspoken criticism of the radical Critical Legal Studies movement raises concern that the appointment will worsen the sharp division between the school's liberal and conservative faculty...