Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Students at each school are separated into 15 groups, which engage in a weekly competition, judged by the teachers, for neatness, attentiveness in class, and work performance in the fields. The top three groups are awarded flags that they carry proudly aloft as they march out to the fields and back again...
...country after country and achieves new missile capabilities. Most amazing is that the Communists themselves have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world (they have become more circumspect lately), while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke. Yet destroying a class is a process that has already been demonstrated in the U.S.S.R. So has the method of exiling an entire people into the wilderness in the space of 24 hours...
Thus while the commission would build up the new class of bureaucrats, it virtually ignores the crucial need for an entrepreneurial class. Yet the past decade's development success stories in Brazil, Hong Kong, South Korea, the Ivory Coast and many other advanced developing nations have shown the importance of private sector initiative and profits in motivating economic takeoff...
...coming together when for so long it looked as if every thing would come flying apart. With disarming candor, the local officials who finally managed to bring the Games back to Lake Placid admit that they did not know what they were getting into. The area had world-class skiing slopes, but no support facilities for the Games and no idea of how to go about building them. Says the Rev. Bernard Fell, an ebullient former policeman who is president of the Lake Placid Organizing Committee: "None of us were trained in managing a construction project or picking a contractor...
...progress which benefits a few upper-class individuals and American multi-nationals at the expense of the majority of the nation's population, is not progress at all. Development, by its very nature, involves social as well as economic change. Economic changes presumably result in improvements in the economy of a country, but Harberger's policies neither seem to improve the economic well-being of a country nor accept responsibility for the social costs his programs demand. Can Harberger justify the number of victims of his development schemes by the far smaller number of beneficiaries. Rosalyn Lezberg Grant Barnes Kent...