Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...states striving for fairness in funding rich and poor school districts, Texas has found no quick fix. After the state supreme court last year affirmed a 1987 district court ruling that the existing system was unconstitutional, Governor Bill Clements and state lawmakers wrestled with the issue through four rancorous special sessions. They finally adopted a formula for bolstering less affluent districts with additional state funds. Last week District Court Judge F. Scott McCown pitched out that plan. Ruling in a suit by the poor school districts that filed the original action, McCown concluded, "The rich districts are left rich...
...political lore when he asked Hart, "Have you ever committed adultery?" It was a question many believe transformed presidential politics, and for the worse. But Taylor argues in See How They Run that Hart, because of his reckless behavior and his challenge to reporters to "follow me," was a special case. Hart "took too literally the invitation in the old Beatles song: Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" Adds Taylor: "Do, if you like. Just don't expect the rest of us not to watch...
Integration of the former East Germany automatically introduces a special set of relationships with Eastern neighbors. "The cultural and economic links brought by the G.D.R. require Germany to develop a policy for Eastern Europe," says law professor Rupert Scholz, a former West German Defense Minister. That need is being accelerated by apprehension about instability and political fragility in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. "I am very much concerned at the shaky situation there," says Horst Teltschik, Kohl's top foreign policy adviser. "There is no stabilized democracy. They are in bad economic shape, and different ethnic groups are fighting...
...with educators in 40 countries, cloaks any differences with that pluralistic tradition in bland language. But it states that faculties are expected to follow "the teaching authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals." Schools will normally run their own affairs, but they will also have "a special bond with the Holy See." In a surprise inclusion, the Pontiff states that the majority of teachers at Catholic institutions must be Catholics themselves...
Teaching ethics to undergraduates is a special challenge because the standard textbooks are not tuned to their experiences, he said...