Word: timespan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less quantifiable complaints. But UHS has had a simple reply to their statistics that they don't check out Dr. Warren E.C. Waeker responds in a wide variety of ways, which all point to some problems with the numbers. He has variously said the figures cover too short a timespan to be significant, that the better figures (obtained from Brigham and Women's Hospital records) show no scientifically significant pattern and that statistics are irrelevant...
...educators are increasingly realizing, America's tunnel vision towards that one timespan has cost it dearly. Colleges across the nation are reporting illiteracy and academic incompetence to be so high among high school graduates that at least one school, the University of Texas at Austin, has begun matching many "no go" 18-year-olds back for tune-up math work. The dismaying caliber of the nation's pre-freshmen has spawned two curriculum reform proposals that promise a return to the days when high school grads could be counted on to do simple arithmetic and read had signs...
...deaths in less that a day, a succession of blasted cars, various broken windows and more scenes of cinematic head-banging that any modern director could ever conceive, Dean turns to his father and introduces the woman he has also fallen in love with during this 22-hour timespan. Says Dean: "Mom and Dad, this is Judy." So much for pathos--all you need is the right partner...
...among some as a distant but diligent manager. The K-School has come quite a ways since the summer of 1969, when a small group of "concerned faculty" patiently ironed out the details of a proposal for a public policy program. In that relatively short (in terms of Harvard) timespan, Allison too has come a long way--maybe too long. "Graham Allison?" one K-School source asks rhetorically. "He's the consummate bureaucrat...
...among some as a distant but diligent manager. The K-School has come quite a ways since the summer of 1969, when a small group of "concerned faculty" patiently ironed out the details of a proposal for a public policy program. In that relatively short (in terms of Harvard) timespan, Allison too has come a long way--maybe too long. "Graham Allison?" one K-School source asks rhetorically. "He's the consummate bureaucrat...