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Company spokesman Fred Yager declined to elaborate on Speakes' resignation...
Some critics have charged that textbook adoption procedures like those in Texas have resulted in a general watering-down of the content of science texts, which in turn has contributed to a decline in student achievement in the sciences. According to Robert Yager, past president of the National Science Teachers Association, 90% of all science teachers use a textbook 90% of the time. Florida Governor Robert Graham, a leader in school reform, has observed, "States have upgraded requirements for graduation, raised teachers' salaries and enacted a variety of reforms. Parallel with these reforms must be a serious uplifting...
...have been placed. The estimated cost of construction: $570 million. That, however, represents just a fraction of the budget. Equipping the center with the latest computers and gadgetry will run another $2 billion. But size and expense are not what makes Slick Six unique. Says Air Force Colonel Walter Yager, commander of the Shuttle Activation Task Force: "There have been larger and more expensive projects, but I doubt if there have been any more complicated...
Exxon service stations. Saul Bass, Herb Yager, Howard York and Richard Huppertz, principal designers. All elements, including architecture, graphics and gasoline pumps are integrated into one quietly assertive unit that should help calm America's roadside clutter...
Died. Eileen Keliher Jeffers Yager, 61, shy, retiring adopted daughter of William M. Jeffers, onetime president (1937-1946) and prime mover of the Union Pacific Railroad, chief beneficiary of his relatively modest (about $500,000) estate on his death in 1953; three days after she was wed (for the first time) to Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Yager, 47, apparently of drowning after she fell overboard from their chartered 36-ft. honeymoon yacht Carefree, in the channel between Catalina Island and the California coast, while her husband was below decks...