Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...likely that fewer of the nation's top young scholars will elect that choice. Increasingly, hot young academics have opted not to come to Harvard, where they know they don't have a shot at tenure, and chosen universities that offered at least the chance of a long-term position...
...beloved by politicians is endangered. Democratic Congressman James Scheuer of New York last week introduced the Non-Smokers Protection Act of 1986, which would snuff out smoking in federal buildings across the country, including the corridors and committee rooms of Congress. Though the legislation will probably not pass this term, Scheuer, who has five no-smoking signs (one in four languages) in his office, is determined to keep trying. "There are many federal workers, including myself, who are sick and tired of having to toil in the thick veil of hazy and noxious smoke," he declares...
...this fall with a vacancy at the top of their ticket. The Democrats' disarray can only help the candidacy of incumbent Governor James Thompson, who barely edged out Stevenson in 1982. What promised to be a close race between two longtime adversaries now looks more like a fourth term for Thompson...
...early grades, has been helped by the federally funded Head Start program. But the sustained benefits of Head Start have been questioned. Moreover, says Yale Psychologist Edward Zigler, director of child development for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon Administration, early learning has "no long-term effect on middle-class kids." Zigler caustically condemns hothousing as a yuppie phenomenon, in which parents try to transfer their own hyperambitious goals to children. Irving Sigel, distinguished research scientist at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., asks, "What happens to kids' sense of self when they're valued...
Gaddafi's navy was no match for the Sixth Fleet. But aside from having the U.S. seem to stand tall again, it was difficult to discern any long-term strategic policy behind Reagan's show of force. In fact, long-range policies are in short supply in this Administration. Reagan swats a fly here or a gnat there while ignoring the insects' breeding areas. Says the President's former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane of last week's action: "I don't see the kind of strategic framework that would make it a new phase. It is more a case...