Word: approach
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...bumpy week as Carter struggles to find an upbeat approach...
Others find such an approach shortsighted. They believe that the U.S. should help the Soviets to expand and exploit their fuel reserves. Says Theodore Shabad, a U.S. expert on Soviet natural resources: "It is not in our interests to create an energy problem for the Soviets; it is in our interest that they be self-sufficient." American attempts to deny the Soviets much-needed drilling technology have not been totally successful. After U.S. firms were stopped from making sales, the Soviets turned to Italian and French firms for the equipment...
...where the President is considered vulnerable: Texas, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Reagan is budgeting roughly half the $29.4 million he will receive in federal campaign funds for TV, radio and print advertising. The ads will emphasize Reagan as the pragmatic Governor of California, a doer not an ideologue, an approach urged by Casey. To build an image as a statesman, Reagan plans to travel to Europe after the convention. Reflecting on his political philosophy, the man who was once considered the most ardent conservative in America admitted: "I think I'm kind of moderate." Though, he added, "maybe...
...schools. The result: lowered basic skills and test scores in elementary math. Exotic features, like binary arithmetic, have since been dropped. Another trend is the "open classroom," with its many competing "learning centers," which can turn a class into a bullpen of babble. There was the look-say approach to reading (learning to read by recognizing a whole word), which for years displaced the more effective "phonics" (learning to read by sounding out syllables...
...also encouraged cynicism: Why, asked the vulnerable young men with intimate reasons to wonder, should they sacrifice their lives fighting Communists pro patria at Khe Sanh when the President of the U.S. would be drinking friendship toasts in Peking and Moscow? Such a morally double-jointed approach to enemies seemed, simplistically but understandably, to be corrupt and treacherous. In addition, the blank finality of nuclear superpower showdown inherently reduces all military endeavor on the dogface level to a humiliating and horrible insignificance; prospective nuclear war, the big bang of the world's demise, also damages an idea crucial...