Word: impracticall
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As for education proper, the variations were wide. Of course, there was no widespread, relatively uniform public school system. In the rural areas and on the frontier, children were apprenticed early or simply worked alongside their parents at farming or housekeeping. Most city children in the North went to schools...
At the same time, relations between Kissinger and Schlesinger, two strongwilled, independent men, grew tenser. They had been squabbling since the Yom Kippur War of October 1973, when Kissinger charged that Schlesinger tried to stall the massive resupply of U.S. weapons to the Israelis. A year later, Kissinger promised to...
Cargo Space. Designer Vera Maxwell admits that the minibags "seemed terribly impractical to me at first." But, she adds, "we've finally come down to a great simplicity in clothes. The emphasis is on casual elegance. We all want something understated, not too authoritarian, and these bags work perfectly...
Bruce Bassett, vice president for fiscal management at Columbia, said yesterday that Columbia will obtain the unrestricted loan in place of a bond issue that the university had been asking since last spring. The present bond market makes bond issues "impractical," he said.
In reference to "Polluted Portfolios'' [Aug. 11], it is true that since 1940 the National Audubon Society has leased land within its Rainey Wildlife Refuge in coastal Louisiana for natural-gas and oil production. We have insisted on meticulous performance by the oil companies, and we have had...