Word: verbalization
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...past five years, and his finger pointing. "Sarcastic, belittling, patronizing," declared John Brademas, president of New York University and formerly a leading education advocate in Congress. California Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig notes that the number of students scoring above 450 in math and 500 in verbal on SATs has jumped 18% since 1983. "If this was the steel industry and we had an 18% gain in productivity, it would make headlines," says Honig. The downbeat report, he adds, "misleads the public...
...extra help for students, particularly in crumbling urban schools, requires extra money. While most states have raised their education budgets since 1983, the Federal Government's contribution has been largely rhetoric. "I just wish that the policies of the President and Secretary matched . their verbal commitment," says Brademas. Bennett's talk of a conspiracy of "extortion," say his critics, closes the door to intelligent discussion of funding...
...whether Jesse Jackson would approve of Nunn's selection. Campaign Manager Gerald Austin last week gave Nunn a qualified thumbs-up, while Campaign Chairman Willie Brown gave him a qualified thumbs-down. Trying to recover from a landslide (67% to 27%) loss to Dukakis in Pennsylvania, Jackson shook a verbal fist at Austin and chastised Brown for saying anything at all that might imply Dukakis is the inevitable nominee. Yet if Jackson became convinced it was the best way for the Democrats to win, he would probably get behind Nunn. At least for the moment, Jackson wants to be seen...
Lawyers for the banks often have trouble building a defense because juries tend to sympathize with the borrowers. The courts are increasingly holding bankers not just to the technicalities of their written contracts but to their verbal commitments as well. As a result, banks have grown more and more cautious about lending money to upstart or marginal ventures, and gentler in their handling of delinquent borrowers. Any such rise in agreeability is good for lenders and borrowers alike, because the costs of jumbo lawsuits are simply passed along to the average banking customer...
...more rankling, look like fun. There is a price. His books sometimes show signs of having been written with one eye on an in-flight movie. His syndicated column occasionally follows the hasty recipe, ad hominem, mix and half-bake. Yet he possesses genuine literary gifts and first- strike verbal capabilities that are devastating in debate...