Economics becomes mainstream in U S high schools
A Yankelovich survey of 500 schools shows nearly half require economics and 39 percent offer it as an elective. Topics include inflation, dollar value, and interest rates as teachers stress both theory and practical application. Newspapers remain the top source for teachers.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc
Phillips Petroleum
Joint
Council On Economic Education
New York City
Deborah Barron
Yankelovich, Skelly and White
JR. Clark
Fairleigh Rickinson University
New Jersey
America
Clark
Ms. Barron
Barron
Compensation Considered For 52 Hostages
Washington AP Eight months after U S hostages freed from Tran a presidential commission weighs paying them for their ordeal. Recommendations range from 1000 dollars per hostage per day to none. The panel chair review by Reagan follows heated testimony from hostage attorney Bruce Claggett and Vietnam veteran Paul Konka who urge against compensation citing veterans’ reception and legal arguments on property rights and government takings. The nine member panel includes Cyrus Vance and Patricia Harris with Carter appointees.
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Washington
America
Tran
United States
Reagan
Bruce Claggett
U.S
Clay- Hett
Commission
Cyrus R. Vance
Health and Human Services
Patricia R. Harris
Carter
Claggett
Iran
Paul Konka
White House
Konka
Hyatt Regency to reopen October first in Kansas City
Hyatt Regency Kansas City plans a quiet October first reopening after two skywalks collapsed in the lobby during a Friday tea dance, killing 112. Remodeling replaces the second floor suspended walkways with a pillar-supported walkway, omitting the fourth and third floor skywalks.
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Kansas City, Mo
Hyatt Regency
Unions Rally to Fight Reagan Budget Cuts in DC
Washington AP report describes AFL-CIO and civil rights allies mobilizing mass protest and grassroots lobbying against a proposed $16 billion federal cut. Donahue and Pepper praise Solidarity Day's impact, likening it to the 1963 civil rights march and signaling renewed labor resolve to defend social programs.
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Washington
Reagan
Capitol Hill
Afl-Cio
House
Senate
Thomas R. Donahue
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
House Committee On Aging
Donahue
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Harold Myers
Clerks
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