Word: developing
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...achieve integration. He also moved toward blurring the distinction between de jure and de facto, contending that "Negro and Mexican children suffer serious harm when their education takes place in public schools that are racially segregated, whatever the source of such segregation may be." He ordered the board to develop a plan that would reduce the percentage of minority students in each school to no more than 15% above or below their representation in the city, and in no case constituting more than half of a school's enrollment...
Ghetto children raised in ghetto schools cannot develop and display their aptitude in the same way that white students do. To refuse them special consideration is to condemn them to the self-perpetuating cycle of inferior education. In fact, the concept of compensatory help is well established in the armed forces and in industry. Progressive businesses, including IBM and General Motors, do not insist on conventional aptitude in hiring blacks; instead, they train them for jobs that the schools have not previously equipped them to handle...
CLARK.-Pacification really means establishing a situation in which the people can live normal lives-develop commerce, elect village officials, travel around without being worried about getting shot. Nobody who has traveled this country can seriously argue that things have not improved. Roads are open, produce is getting to market. That does not make the people loyal to President Thieu, though. I think most of them wish all politicians would go away. ANSON: I personally feel that while pacification may be stronger today than at any time within recent memory, it is still extremely vulnerable to a determined thrust...
...Catholicism's most eminent names?such as former Jesuit Bernard J. Cooke, one of the nation's leading Catholic theologians. Last November, Cooke announced that he was leaving the clerical state and Marquette University, where he was chairman of the theology department, because he saw "a need to develop new forms of Christian life and priestly ministry outside the ordinary clerical structures but not in opposition to them...
...With that, says Schallert, he begins to ask, "Who am I?" He seeks help from someone, whom Schallert calls the "crucial other"?a friend, a superior, a confessor. He does not find it, and finally he decides to leave. "Once that decision is made," says Schallert, "he may develop a close relationship with a woman. When we start talking with him, the thing on his mind is the woman. Then we start probing to find out when this all started, and it wasn't a woman...