Education as big business in the consumer driven era
A critique of public schooling's value prompts a look at private performance contracts. Private firms like American Learning Corp promise reading gains or refunds, arguing accountability and clearer results boost standards while taxpayers demand value and lower costs.
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America
Detroit Auto
Fales
Brazil
System Development Corporation
Santa Monica
Calif
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
SDC
United States
SNC
Nation's Business
Jean Lessinger
Kenneth Martyn
Cal State Los Angeles
Martyn
American Learning Corp
ALC
Dennis Mangers
Mangers
New auto insurance shifts spark debate in Tlingis
A recent bill in Tlingis creates a policyholder security deposit for fire and casualty insurers. It requires cash and securities to back guaranty funds, aiming to protect claimants and monitor company health. Advocates say it could save insured drivers millions if adopted nationwide.
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Tlingis
Department of Transportation
Als
Emirsa
Tne Minois
Dedicated Doctor Frank McCormick of Englewood Remembered
A reverent portrait of Dr. Frank McCormick, a Newark area surgeon who built Holy Name Hospital and co invented spinal anesthesia. He helped police families, funded a widow, and long memory holds his steady service to Englewood and nearby towns.
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Frank McCormick
Avery City
St. Francis Hospital
Jersey City
St. Francis
Pry Bergan County
McCormick
Dian Kelly
Coats
Englewood
Iisade Avenue
Frank McCarmick
Frank McCermick
Sxs
Pertaeln
Sisters of St. Joseph of
P.B.A
Holy Narme Hospital
Freedom and self-control in local ideas from Columbus Neb
A fragmentary 1971 note from Columbus Nebraska advocates freedom as a divine gift and personal responsibility. It argues freedom opposes government control and links to moral guides like the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence.
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Thin Pewspaper
Tle
Wian
Reducing the wallet by faulty weight devices
Readers' inquiry about hot wraps sauna shorts and similar gimmicks to slim waists and thighs. FDA warns inflatable and electric devices are mostly junk, promote water loss, and can be dangerous. true fat loss requires physical activity. Replies note birth control pills can clear oily skin temporarily, but effects fade after stopping.
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Reader's Digest
Jean Carper
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
US Postal Service
de Joseph Davis
Patterne
Lamb
Fringe Word Puzzle Clues Across Various Languages and Objects
A garbled puzzle style list mixes numbers languages and terms. It hints at a crossword like grid with clues across time names currencies bodies places and roles, including biblical names, animals and professions, interwoven with stray phrases and abbreviations.
Nixon Phase Two Policy Critique and Motion Economics
A Harvard economist recounts Nixon Phase Two and West European income policies, arguing that policy testing can bolster public confidence even if long term gains are unclear. The piece compares to Roosevelt's NRA, noting politics may drive action while real economics remains debated, with Friedman cited on wage effects.
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Hendrik Houthakker
President's Council of Economic Advisers
Harvard
New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange
Nixon
Franklin Roosevelt
NRA
General High
Johnson
Supreme Court
George Meany
AFL- Clo
Franklin Rooosevelt
Milton Friedman
Right to Work gains momentum in Congress amid wage policy debate
The piece discusses inflationary pressures from employer price hikes and unemployment risks, critiquing Nixon's stance on Big Labor. It notes Representative Sam Steiger's push for a National Right to Work bill, with bipartisan co sponsors, and references a 1930s style draft on postal workers. It argues voluntary unionism could reduce wage pressures while challenging labor leadership.
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Nixon
George Meany Oo
George Meany
Congress
Sam Steiger
Arizona
House Labor Committee
Isha ‘Ready
House of Representatives
People thank supporters for John Selzer fund prayers
To the Editor the Selzer family expresses gratitude for help, prayers, cards, and gifts after John Selzer, 15, suffered a football injury causing total paralysis from the chest down. He remains in a Circle Bed at Lincoln General Hospital eight weeks on, with planned neck and back brace and wheel chair in weeks ahead.
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John Selzer
John
Cirle
Notre Dame
Sunset Division Prompted Columbus Pride Letter
A reader thanks the Sunset Division in Columbus for its community spirit noting attractive residents, industrious children, jobless taxes paid, and ample babysitters. The letter ends with thanks to a Mr 667 45th Ave.
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Sunset
Columbus
45Th Ave
Confession of shoplifting and job barriers after arrest
A former student from Plattsville Wisconsin reflects on shoplifting as a thrill, how parents paid fines, and how a police record blocks jobs in bonding insurance civil service real estate law and military paths, ending with note of ongoing career limits due to a past arrest.
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Tam
Armed Services
Military Academy
Nebraska's Terry Carpenter Aimed For Senate Bid
Terry Carpenter, Western Nebraska's living dynamo, spoke to farmers and businesspeople last Thursday about a Democratic nomination for the U S Senate next May. He criticizes party labels, touts his record in the Nebraska Unicameral, and promises to press his case if he wins the nomination and faces Senator Carl Curtis.
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Nebraska
Terry Carpenter
WS. Senate
Carl Curtis
Terry
Sen. Carpenter
U.S
Barbs by Phil Pastoret
A humorous verse column wastes lines on wordplay about song keeping, tone deafness, nocturnal footsteps, and aging men chasing youth. It riffs on marriage vows and dreams with quirky misspellings and jaunty financial quips.
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Peatares Syndicaty
Columbus, Nebraska
Berry World
Lewrente Lamb
Wuiliz
Hevay
Bela
Slate
India
Solar
Tenaess
Brmual
Domingo
Agee
S Peete
Fis
Chamberlain
Fanthey Symergete
Lincoln General Hospital
Lincoln
Nation's Press
Plattsville, Wis
Nebraska's Press
Phil Pastoret
Henough
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