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Former Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, head of a panel of experts that has spent two years studying the problem, concluded this fall that U.S. education has been "off stride for ten years." Reflecting the general concern, Jimmy Carter during his campaign called for creation of a separate, Cabinetlevel Department of Education to help remedy the situation; one of his aides S declares, "We're going to get that started." But whatever Washington does, issues of public education are largely a matter of state and local responsibility...
...Chemist Willard Libby. This was followed by the invention of the potassium-argon method. Both gave scientists techniques by which they could accurately determine the age of the strata in which fossilized bones were found, and sometimes the age of the bones themselves. Using these new tools, they have determined that Java man and Peking man, now classified as Homo erectus, walked the earth more than 500,000 years...
...dollar-6% against the Swiss franc, for example, in the past eight weeks -hardly inspires confidence either. Unease about many of these matters predates Carter's Inauguration, but there is no question that doubts about the President's economic policy have increased the reluctance to invest. Says Willard Butcher, president of Chase Manhattan Bank: "Frankly, many companies just don't know whether to go forward with capital expansion plans because they have got no clear signals from Washington." A senior official of California's Bank America Corp. adds, "They are waiting to see what happens...
...plant, which measures a foot in height, grows wild in a large area reaching eastward from the Ozarks and is cultivated commercially. The mature root, usually four inches long, weighs less than an ounce. Diggers send the roots to a handful of dealers, like Willard Magee in Eolia, Mo.; he will mail back a check based on wholesale prices (currently $95 to $110 per lb. for wild and $45 to $50 for cultivated). Though wild ginseng accounts for only 26% of U.S. production, it commands much higher prices than the cultivated variety because it is thought to be more potent...
...years, $600,000 and an 8-in.thick volume of data later, the 21-member advisory panel on the SAT score decline delivered its findings last week. As Chairman Willard Wirtz, former Secretary of Labor, brusquely summed up the report, the country has been "off stride for ten years." Although the 75-page final report is fraught with qualifiers in the traditional academic manner, the panel came to some firm conclusions about the nature of American schools-and society -that in the experts' own phrase warrant "careful attention by everybody interested in education...