Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...airline pilots, partly out of pride and the certainty of a follow-up investigation, are often reluctant to take that step. "Complacency in the cockpit, failure to recognize and deal with hazards, is the most dangerous threat to air safety," says Jerome Lederer, an internationally known expert on the subject...
...grown comfy to a fault. Some fictional characters mingle with real people, rich, famous or notorious. Unfolding history can be overheard in drawing-room gossip. In this instance, the invention of the movies provokes drollery about crude, gullible Americans. When the dialogue is witty, Hollywood entertains. But its subject is essentially passing time, and reading it often feels like an exercise in doing just that...
Safire turned 60 in December, and he makes no secret of his ambition: 20 more years opining on deadline. "I have the greatest job in the world," he declares. "I'm free to write, to select my subject and say anything I want about the subject. That's freedom. Freedom's a big thing for me." The tribal bonds between Safire and the Times are intense. It is odd to recall the epithets that greeted his ill-timed arrival in the midst of Watergate; Safire's critics could not decide what was worse -- that he was a Nixon apologist...
...most innovative goal called for students in Grades 4, 8 and 12 to pass nationwide tests in five basic subject areas. Typically, Bush left unanswered the thorny questions of who will design the tests, how they will be carried out and funded, and how results will be reported. But given the controversy surrounding national standards and student testing, the fact that the President embraced the notion at all was remarkable. "To superimpose some norms would be radical," says Chester Finn, chairman of the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (N.A.E.P.), a 20-year-old federal testing program...
...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...