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...that may have floated near bankruptcy during the tax revolt of the 1970s. Along with increased funding come stipualtion intended to Strengthen both the teaching precession and the level of instruction in the public schools; California's 1983 educational reform act established a competency test for teachers along with tougher graduation requirements for student...
...each of eight companies a strict quota on the number of vehicles it could ship to the U.S. The total exported each year was 1.8 million cars. The restrictions, of course, were not really voluntary, since the Japanese firms acted only to stop the U.S. Congress from imposing even tougher controls. The restraints were twice extended for a year, but last week President Reagan announced that they were finally being eliminated. He said that he would not seek to have the Japanese extend the controls when they expire at the end of this month. To do so, he said, would...
...third-round play gets underway today, the competition should get a little tougher. Ball third in the expects light Franklin and Marshall's Chris Bahr, also a second team All-American...
...where their talent as dancers is neither appreciated nor taken seriously. Dance being, of course, for bidden in Ohio, the kids is forced to rehearse in abandoned warehouses and to run away to New York without telling their parents. New York, that mecca of artistic opportunity, proves to be tougher than this bunch bargained for. Braving myriad evils, from muggers to threatening rival dance groups, from discouraging agents to hordes of mohawked, leather-clad punks, the Adventurous Eight pirouette their way to stardom, shedding only a few poignant tears of disappointment along...
...faces what may be an even tougher task than running a railroad: getting out of the business. In an effort to uncouple itself from Conrail and Amtrak, the Reagan Administration is causing a commotion among the country's railroads and many of the people who use them...