Word: unveil
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...energetic new team at the Education Department is pushing George Bush to deliver on his 1988 campaign promise to improve America's schools. In a speech this week, the President is expected to unveil a 44-point plan to boost overall standards by the end of the decade. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander has persuaded Bush to call for a new core curriculum in math, the sciences, history and English. To make sure all states meet basic requirements, there would be national testing of every schoolchild in the fourth, eighth and 12th grades. Bush is expected once again to endorse...
Next week the President is expected to unveil a national energy policy that will favor increased use of natural gas and nuclear power and stepped-up oil exploration -- including a controversial proposal to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But the plan is almost certain to ignore any significant steps to promote conservation. Most notably, although automobiles, buses and trucks account for two-thirds of U.S. oil use, the program is expected to shun the two most effective means to put the brakes on fuel consumption: a hike in the gas tax and a higher federal fuel-efficiency standard...
That is why a product introduction scheduled to take place this week in San Francisco has sparked so much interest. After nearly 3 1/2 years of top-secret development, a start-up firm called Go, in Foster City, Calif., is set to unveil a radically innovative small computer. It offers a new way of interacting with computers -- one modeled not on the typewriter, as most conventional machines are, but on the standard paper notepad...
Here's an axiom of the new budget math for state officials: '80s into '90s won't go. For much of the past decade state budgets were pushed into the black by a buoyant economy that kept tax revenues pouring in just fast enough. In a pinch, states could unveil a new lottery, nudge up the sales tax or practice the kind of creative accounting that shifts one year's outlays into the next. But with the economy slumping and voters raising a fuss at the very whisper of new taxes, the assumptions of the '80s are not working anymore...
That's true. Deconstructionism attempts to unveil the myths which surround our traditional notions of literature, government and economics. We should reclaim them. We should because we need to buy into the myth that we can speak the same language. I'm too inexperienced to know if we can, but if we agree up front that we can't, then it's over. We're better off living a myth than living apart...