Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poor Reggie-nobody is all that impressed any more. The day is long past when the IQ was revered as some sort of magic number, affixed during childhood as an indelible, immutable badge of mental prowess or dullness. Instead, the whole IQ concept is under suspicion. Many school systems, including those in California and New York City, have abandoned IQ testing altogether. College admissions officers have little use for them. Neither do such competitive organizations as NASA, IBM or Phi Beta Kappa...
...years after the victory of the Revolution, the Federation did away with prostitution on the island by providing education and alternative employment for the 100,000 prostitutes then working in Cuba. The Federation also started night schools for domestic servants. This program has succeeded to the extent that "the concept of 'maid' has been eliminated," Figueroa said Working women in Cuba are given four months pregnancy leave with full salary and may, if they choose, remain at home with their baby for up to a year without giving up the right to return to their original job. Women may also...
...same year as the literacy campaign the Cuban people also nationalized the educational system on the premise that the Revolution guaranteed universal education. They founded a new system of education in which all students also work-a concept drawn from the writings of Marx and Marti (a Cuban revolutionary hero of the 19th century war for independence). Beginning in 1963, all schools were incorporated into the national scheme to improve agricultural, and to a lesser extent, industrial, production...
Moreover, a number of safeguards exist to prevent PIRG from siphoning off monies from unwilling students. First, 50 per cent of the student body must sign a petition indicating their support for the PIRG concept before PIRG may even present itself to the students for approval and funds. Second, if a majority of students does sign this petition, both signers and non-signers of the petition still have a choice as to whether or not to support PIRG. Those students who do not desire to pay the PIRG fee of $3.00 per semester need only check off the appropriate...
Some prison officials fear that without the incentive of parole, what little life remains in the concept of rehabilitation will be snuffed out. Further, institutions will become even more crowded as convicts serve out long sentences. With only good time remaining as a route to early release, the potential for abuse by prison guards would be heightened as well. Warns George Denton, Ohio corrections director: "Determinate sentencing transfers discretion from the most qualified members of the corrections department to the lowest paid and least educated...