Word: substandard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victory is "more relevant" than the number of votes that carried him into office. If the new mayor is to justify the hopes invested in him, he will have to display something more than the clubby conciliation that marked his previous career. The problems of crime, drugs, homelessness and substandard education cry out for solution or at least amelioration. The infrastructure is literally blowing up, with a seemingly endless series of water-main explosions. Especially worrying are Dinkins' close ties to powerful labor unions, some of which may clamor for pay increases just as the city grapples with a projected...
...hard-hitting report that accused the scientific community of allowing the pressure to publish to make them too "tolerable of substandard practices," the Institute of Medicine offered some other suggestions for reducing the incentive for fraud. Among them: decreasing the emphasis on publications in promotion considerations and limiting the number of junior faculty members under any one professor...
...their district. Minnesota goes even further. It is phasing in a plan that by 1990 will allow students to attend virtually any public school in the state. More than 20 other states have passed or are considering bills that would permit students to patronize the best schools and flee substandard ones. Naturally, the most popular schools get the most money...
There are 7.6 million people in the U.S. whose dwelling places are deemed "substandard," a euphemism that fails to evoke adequately the living conditions in scanty rural shotgun shacks or the inhabited shells of buildings in urban areas. These quarters are commonly without heat and plumbing, and in some cases are in such disrepair that the term shelter is misapplied. But worse than the deficient housing, Fuller laments, is the world's indifference to it. "People of goodwill, especially people of faith, should find it hard to rest in peace," he admonishes...
...NCAA has also approved a plan to toughen Proposition 48, the rule which prevents athletes with substandard academic records from playing varsity sports for one year...