Word: workbook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Organizing Step Forward somewhat like a classroom workbook, Webb comes across more like a friendly high school teacher than a corporate consultant, lacing her account with anecdotes and case studies. Examples...
Teacher Savage, 64, often works seven days a week and sends home all missed math questions and spelling errors for parental inspection. Each weekend she prepares sheets for every child detailing the workbook pages to be completed on a daily basis for the next week. Because she must rely heavily on these telephone directory-size texts full of student exercises, she loses in spontaneity what she gains in regularity. But, she says flatly, "there is no other way I could do this...
Wong said statistics such as those published in The Workbook, a recycling magazine, inspired her to launch the project. According to the magazine, Americans produce 20 pounds of waste a day, totaling 1000 pounds per a year...
Wong also cited the Workbook's statistics on the amount of energy savedby recycling. "Virgin materials cost a lot more to process," Wong said. "Aluminum recycling saves 95 percent of the energy which would normally be put into aluminum production, while recycled paper uses only half of the energy that regular production would consume...
...Kolko admits he has had to do some drudge work. While he has gotten to work on a couple of special research projects--one on student financial aid, and another on Japanese productivity growth--he has also spent a good part of his summer putting together the new readings workbook for Social Analysis 10, the introductory economics course which Feldstein teaches...