Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anticipation of an extended lull, or it could be simply for safe refitting and regrouping. In fact, the evidence is ambiguous, and as with Hanoi's unenlightening silence, the Administration has chosen to interpret it pessimistically. If there is more fighting, both sides will try to use it to improve their bargaining positions in the peace that must eventually come...
...lengths to assure Moscow of Czechoslovakia's continued loyalty to the Communist bloc. He pledged, as he has in the past, that his country would not suddenly change its trade pattern and would remain solidly moored in the Communist economic community. He also declared that the party would use its influence to discourage anti-Socialist and anti-Soviet broadcasts and articles, and that he would require all political associations to function within the party-dominated National Front. All these, however, were minor concessions -the price of preserving Czechoslovakia's cherished new society...
...money alloted under Title I has gone to poverty areas. In 1965, the U.S. Office of Education allowed state school departments to use 1960 census figures to determine the number of children in their state from families with incomes of less in $2000--USOE's definition of an economically disadvantaged child eligible for aid under Title I. Using the census figures was a mistake that the USOE has been regretting ever since. The figure are, by all accounts, out of date, and using them has has allowed already well-financed school districts to get Title I money, much...
...themselves eligible for Title I funds, and after a little hesitation, applied for and received the money. Once the districts had the dollars, they discovered they could not find the economically disadvantaged children supposedly living in their districts and through a loophole in the wording of the law, began using the funds to finance programs for Educationally disadvantaged students. "You mean that if a kid's father is making $15,000 a year, but he is divorced and the kid is hung up and behind two years in reading, the district can use behind two years in reading, the district...
...best paid for by the school districts themselves, have begun a campaign to eliminate wealthy districts from the Title I rolls and concentrate the money in districts where poverty is something more than a curiosity recorded in 1960 census figures. The USOE has asked state education departments to use up-to-date welfare statistics to allot the money so that it will go to the most needy districts. The states, however, plead that local programs, once established, should not be abruptly, terminated, so the USOE has relented and allowed the states to make the change in a fashion reminiscent...