Word: textbook
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...banking system capable of siphoning capital and credit to entrepreneurs opening private businesses or to state combines suddenly shorn of their subsidies. No country has been able to figure out a rapid way to convert state businesses to private ownership. "It is absolutely wrong to come in here with textbook notions of economics," says Werner Varga, an economist with Creditanstalt, a large Austrian bank that keeps a close watch on the region...
Here, the plot thickens: Barr begins to see that the pieces just don't fit. In a very fishy sense, Diana's dream turns out to be a textbook case. Barr finds he has personal contacts with all of the pertinent witnesses at the trial. And what's more the sole beneficiary to Heather's husband's estate--the one obstacle to her inheriting it herself--has just died...
...same token, great changes have taken place in the versions of American history taught to schoolchildren. The past 10 years have brought enormous and hard-won gains in accuracy, proportion and sensitivity in the textbook treatment of American minorities, whether Asian, Native, black or ^ Hispanic. But this is not enough for some extremists, who take the view that only blacks can write the history of slavery, only Indians that of pre- European America, and so forth...
...Decatur, Ill., a primary-school teacher discovered the word God in a phonics textbook and ordered her class of seven-year-olds to strike it out, saying that it is against the law to mention God in a public school...
...problem with this story is not only that it happens in the U.S. as well--such willful distortions are not confined, as we like to believe, to textbooks in rural Mississippi--but also that it has become apparent only because the Japanese government has been suing textbook writers to keep this "subversive" material...