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...such recogntion the icewomen had to face a tough competition along the way. To toughen the team and prove his squad's prowess. Harvard Coach John Dooley plotted a killer campaign for his charges. "It's one heck of a schedule," he remarked at the beginning of the season...
...schedule should only toughen a team whose strength is in its experience, Dooley said...
Soon after his election, Honig asked Sacramento legislators to toughen high school graduation requirements, raise beginning salaries for teachers to $18,000, make loans for teacher training, and fund master teacher programs. Cost: $800 million. Governor George Deukmejian, who had won office on a promise of fiscal austerity, balked. But a public opinion poll indicated that Californians by a 2-to-l majority would support increased taxes to improve public schools...
...educationally benighted states, Governor William Winter got the legislature to pass a $69 million bill last December to improve teacher pay and to implement compulsory attendance for the first time since the 1950s. Florida Governor Bob Graham's $228 million school-reform package, passed in June, will toughen student requirements, provide summer institutes for classroom teachers, buy computers for classes, and provide money to attract math and science teachers. Governor James Hunt of North Carolina, who led the Task Force on Education for Economic Growth and who has done part-time teaching during his gubernatorial tenure, has spearheaded everything...
...Flanked by Cabinet ministers, beneath a bright blue banner proclaiming the new Tory slogan BRITAIN STRONG AND FREE, Thatcher lost no time - and squandered no politesse-in proclaiming her determination to "ensure that Britain remains a steadfast ally in an uncertain world." She unveiled a manifesto that would further toughen Tory policies on trade unionism, denationalization of state-run industries and big-city metropolitan councils. In so doing, Thatcher drew the battle lines with the opposition Labor Party in the bleakest terms. "The choice before the nation is stark," she intoned, "either to continue our present progress toward recovery...