Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Safire impulsively set up the "kitchen debate" between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon at the American Exhibition in Moscow. Safire's goal was not to boost Nixon but to plug the developer of the "all-American home" in which the famed face-off took place...
...crisis in the classroom. No one, of course, could argue against raising graduation rates -- especially in inner cities with large black and Hispanic populations. But overall, 84% of young Americans already earn a high school diploma or its equivalent by age 24. How ambitious is it, then, to set a goal...
...meet Bush's goal, some entity -- probably N.A.E.P. -- will have to set standards for mastery of a given subject and design a test for it. That still leaves room for states and school districts to determine how material is taught. Besides, local control has hardly proved to be a miracle drug for improving educational levels. "Local school districts don't have incentives to work hard," says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. "I'm not worried about too much authority. I worry about too little...
...admits the White House, may take years to solve. Later this month when he meets with Governors to flesh out the goals, Bush could speed the process by more forcefully endorsing strategies such as simplifying teacher certification and lengthening the school year. "The goals won't be hard to set," says Lamar Alexander, the former Republican Governor who is now president of the University of Tennessee. "But we'll have to see if everyone is bold enough to make the quantum leaps we need." Without a firmer push from Washington, states and districts may never measure up to Bush...
...planning to quit as Communist Party chief? Gorbachev listened to the translation with a puzzled look, then smiled. "Many rumors and suppositions are circulating worldwide," he said, gesticulating with his hands for emphasis. "All this is groundless. It has come into vogue in the international press to set rumor mills working as soon as we approach a regular plenum of the party Central Committee...