Word: abc
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After all, how else to explain the fact that an estimated 13% of 17-year- olds and perhaps 40% of minority youth are considered functionally illiterate? . That less than one-third know when the Civil War occurred? That in a recent ABC-TV-sponsored survey of 200 teenagers, less than half could identify Daniel Ortega (President of Nicaragua) and two-thirds were ignorant of Chernobyl (one guessed it was Cher's real name). Five years after A Nation at Risk prompted a flurry of reform, average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) have risen 11 points. Still, as recently...
...Channel Five told me what the networks had sworn not to divulge until 11:00 p.m.--that George Bush will be the forty-first President. When ABC projected that he had captured Missouri's ten electoral votes, Bush crossed the magic threshold of 270 electoral votes...
...survey taken for The Associated Press and Charleston Daily Mail gave Dukakis a 15-point bulge in traditionally Democratic West Virginia, a large gain for him since a survey in mid-October. ABC said its overnight survey of battleground state Pennsylvania gave Bush a three-point edge...
...five-minute back-to-back interviews on ABC's "World News Tonight," and both were asked about the nastiness that has pervaded this year's race. Bush said his campaign has been "hard-hitting, but it's been fair and it's been accurate." He said Dukakis has run his full share of negative commercials, as well...
...ABC said its survey of North Carolina--once Dukakis' strongest hope for a Southern success--gave the vice president an 11-point edge. Dukakis held a four-point margin in a New York survey...