Considerable national interest has centered on merit pay for elementary and secondary school teachers since the recent release of the educational reform reports. This merit pay paper contains a background discussion, description of alternatives, summary of current and proposed programs, and analysis of evaluation and implementation implications.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Reviewing plans for the Oct. 16 annual Heritage Hills Home Tour are, from left, Gerriann Altshuler, tour vice chairmen; Pat Bruner, tour chairman, and Renate Wiggin, head hostess at one of the four private homes on the tour."

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Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Tom Kilpatrick, John Kennedy and Mike Samis, in left photo, are among several hundred people gathered at NW 63 and Pennsylvania for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Waterford Hotel."

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local and campus news along with advertising.

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Betty Jones, standing, and her daughter, Kate Rutledge, work on their handmade dolls."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Looking over the hors d'oeuvres at a local ceremony are, from left, Lee Allan Smith, Wes Finley and Phil Patterson."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "In the early 1900's Daniel Terra, the son of Italian immigrants, was just like any red-blooded American kid."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Alice Walsh displays some finished insulating drapes."

Weekly Czech and English language newspaper from Temple, Texas published as the official organ of the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas that includes news of interest to members along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Bellaire, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily student newspaper from the North Texas State University in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising. Formerly The Campus Chat.

Weekly newspaper from Palacios, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

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Recent technical progress in fusion research has been sufficient to encourage the development of conceptual designs for fusion power systems. These design efforts suggest that more attention should be paid to the safety and environmental effects of the radioactivity induced in the structural materials by the fusion neutrons. In particular, radioactivity from neutron activation of the structural components of a fusion power system will be a concern for occupational exposure of personnel. Careful choice of structural materials can significantly reduce this exposure. We propose the Remote Maintenance Rating (RMR) as a numerical means of comparing materials and machine designs with respect to occupational exposures. The RMR is defined as the dose rate at the surface of a uniformly activated, thick, infinite slab with the same composition and density as the machine component. We used the RMR rating system to evaluate the suitability of several different iron-based alloys. The specific fusion power system design used in our evaluation was a conceptual design from the Mirror Advanced Reactor Study (MARS). We determined that HT-9 is significantly better in terms of radiological dose rates at early times than the other iron-based alloys (by a factor of 3 to 7). We also calculated the …

The basic equations of radiation hydrodynamics are discussed in the regime that the radiation is dynamically as well as thermally important. Particular attention is paid to the question of what constitutes an acceptable approximate non-relativistic system of dynamical equations for matter and radiation in this regime. Further discussion is devoted to two classes of application of these ideas. The first class consists of problems dominated by line radiation, which is sensitive to the velocity field through the Doppler effect. The second class is of problems in which the advection of radiation by moving matter dominates radiation diffusion.

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B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.