Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sylvan center in Walnut Creek, Calif., Aaron Ruiz, 8, frowns before an audiovisual machine. Like many other youngsters, Aaron has had learning problems: his school wanted to put him into special-education classes, but his mother brought him to Sylvan. A teacher shows Aaron flash cards that say HUG, LUG. He misreads the first word as bug, then catches his mistake. When he corrects it and completes the test successfully, the teacher rewards him with four yellow tokens. These can be exchanged at the "Sylvan store," where pupils trade their accumulated tokens for such goodies as Super GoBots, giant sunglasses...
...Aaron DiAntonio '88, a representative from Mather House, tried to point out difficulties with the plan on the council floor. DiAntonio called the fingers "cute, but not $500 worth of cute." But his advice received scant consideration from the not-quite-50 of Harvard's 88 council members who were present to vote on the plan. Pressed for time after passing nearly an hour discussing the council's responsibility to speak out on "controversial political questions," the members devoted about five minutes to approving the fingers expenditure...
...Only Aaron D. Edison '88 and Dohi remained in the studio during the first evacuation to continue broadcasting. Edison said both assumed personal responsibility for their own safety, saying, "no one was terribly concerned, but there was always the off chance...
...publicity and the fad have to be a part of it," said Aaron Fox of Eliot Street's "A Wine For All Reasons," in which five cases of the stuff were snapped up in two hours. "But it is interesting in itself," Fox added...
...done some career advising and I will function in that particular vein," says another advisor, Salvatore J. Iannucci, the Chief Executive Officer of Aaron Spelling Productions...