Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Please don't take this initiative with the inner city to mean that we plan to abandon other areas of the state," he said. "We're by no means picking on a section of the city or taking advantage of poor people and minorities...
...inborn gift that made Pete Rose the symbol of what Americans consider a vital part of the national ethos. He was Charlie Hustle, the man who ran out even his bases on balls, who played with a boyish exuberance and devil-may- care abandon characterized by the belly-flop, headfirst slides that kept his uniform constantly dirty. He soared far beyond athletes who had vastly more natural grace. A whole generation of fathers told their Little League sons to play like Rose if they wanted to get the most out of their ability...
Besides the recommendations on sex counseling, perhaps the report's most controversial proposal is the elimination of tracking. While it is true that minority and at-risk students are often warehoused in low-level classes, a blanket insistence on cooperative learning may motivate parents of gifted children to abandon the public schools. "We need to be careful," says Stanford education professor Michael Kirst. "We certainly don't want to slow down kids on the fast track...
...denim jacket and shaggy hair became a familiar sight in Tiananmen, where the charismatic Wuer barked directives from a bullhorn and bantered with demonstrators and journalists alike. Even after other student leaders voted him off the standing committee organizing the protests, in part for advising his fellow strikers to abandon the square the day after martial law was declared, Wuer remained devoted to the cause. "I deserved to be replaced," he conceded, for believing false information that the army was about to move in. After the army finally did appear two weeks later, Wuer vanished, and only last week...
...watchers: the new technique could be used by unethical researchers to manipulate the genetic makeup of humans. "It's amazing if true, and would make our work much easier," says Steven Holtzman of Embryogen Corp., a biotechnology firm with labs in Princeton, N.J. But no one is about to abandon the standard technique until other scientists complete tests of the Italians' work -- a process that is already well under...