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"Foreign language study in the United States has had many a “Sputnik moment,” as H. Jay Siskin, a French instructor at Cabrillo College, in California, put it — that is, a moment that reveals an economic or military weakness and has been used as a call to arms to strengthen, among other things, language education."

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