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...lost their leverage over other cartel members. The Saudis could not convince the other OPEC members that they should agree on a lower ceiling price. In fact it took four hours of extra bargaining for Yamani to persuade Iran Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar, whose country produces about one-tenth as much petroleum as Saudi Arabia, to change a single key word in the conference's final communiqu...
...Still, for all the triumphs of Soviet science, it is plagued by major problems, some of which may be endemic to the very system that has made science a national priority. One sign: since 1917, the U.S.S.R. has won only eight Nobel Prizes in the sciences, less than a tenth as many...
...specialized subject-matter instruction as early as the fourth grade-is repeated in 147,000 "general education" schools across the U.S.S.R. Soviet children go to school six days each week, typically from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The required curriculum generally runs through tenth grade and covers about the same amount of schooling that U.S. students get attending five days a week from kindergarten through twelfth grade. City schools are better than rural schools, but most Soviet students study the same standard curriculum. Usually there is only one current textbook authorized for each major subject, though...
...read on a fifth-grade level," he says. "We saw reading as the key by which these kids could gain success." For six years, Harold's group faced constant opposition from the school's principal, who was embarrassed at all the attention to a remedial program for tenth-graders supposed to be taking high school courses. In 1974, during the city's big economic crisis, the program's teachers were let go or transferred...
...really want in education?" Harold still is an excellent teacher, and he likes the spirit of the children in his school. But, he says, "when I look out at a class of 35 sophomores and I know that the reading levels in it are everywhere from fourth to tenth grade, I know that society has presented me with an impossible teaching assignment...