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...those with less ability at least learn the basics. Like many Christian schools, the Bridgeport Academy uses a core curriculum of social studies, science, math, English and spelling interspersed with Bible teachings. The results make a strong case: at Bridgeport, eighth-grade students taking the Metropolitan Achievement Test averaged tenth-grade levels. At Nebraska's Faith Baptist, pupils scored a year ahead of their public school counterparts on the California Achievement Test...
...high-tech industries are feeling the pinch. The electronic-components field had back-to-back growth rates of 18% in 1978 and '79, but will probably close out this year with a 1.4% drop in sales. And the usually sparkling California wine industry reports sour grapes: only one-tenth of 1 % growth in shipments over last year...
...comforting truth and magnify it into the whole truth, blocking out all evidence of continuing or looming trouble. Says one former aide: "You have to be careful with him. If you had nine bad items to tell him and one good one, he would latch on to the tenth favorable item and discount the other nine. The blind spots are very troubling...
...Falkland Islands. Last week's trip was at least obliquely an attempt to erase lingering resentment. All four countries Reagan visited are fiscally wobbly, Brazil most prominently. There Reagan reassured Figueiredo that the U.S. is not about to let Brazil's precarious economy, the world's tenth largest, collapse. Reagan also went south to reaffirm his Administration's antagonism toward the hemisphere's first Marxist regime (Fidel Castro's Cuba) and the latest (Sandinist Nicaragua). His stops in Costa Rica and Honduras symbolically isolated Nicaragua, which is wedged in between. Reagan also conferred with...
...sale of the Herald saves Boston, the nation's tenth largest metropolitan area, from the dubious distinction of becoming the biggest city with just one major paper. Instead, the staid, august Globe faces the possibility of a no-holds-barred newspaper war. Murdoch has pledged to invest $15 million in the Herald American. Said a senior Herald editor: "This will cost the Globe millions. They will have to fight." Globe Publisher William O. Taylor, whose family has operated the paper for more than a century, canceled a trip to Seattle this week and said, "I will be right here...