Word: accra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This past summer, when she ventured from her home near Tacoma, Wash., it was not to Rome or Rio but to West Africa, where she did as much as six hours' worth of volunteer work each day for three weeks in a village named Ho, 50 miles north of Accra, Ghana. Under the auspices of the organization Cross-Cultural Solutions, Carnright, a part-time real estate agent, assisted in a local nursery school, reading to children, teaching them songs, numbers and colors, and telling them about life in America...
...sends volunteers to India and Peru, is to awaken understanding of the world's diversity. On many afternoons and evenings, Carnright visited villagers in their homes or met with groups curious about the U.S. and how it differed from Ghana. After her work stint, she spent a week in Accra, where a friend she had made in the village took her to museums, the national park and the beach and told her the history of his country. Reflecting on a summer vacation well spent, Carnright says, "You feel like you have accomplished something. You open things up for people...
Sanders used faculty salary data provided by the American Association of University Professors and cost-of-living numbers from the American Chamber of Commerce Research Association (ACCRA). But for those cities for which ACCRA did not have cost-of-living estimates--about one-fourth of the list--Sanders extrapolated data from surrounding communities. For example, the cost-of-living figure for Providence, R.I. was determined using data from New Haven, Conn., Springfield, Mass. and Manchester...
...interview, Avery said that ACCRA's goalof opening up administrative disciplinaryprocedures to public scrutiny would make victimsof sexual assault less likely to come forward...
Although HUPD officers collected the studentfrom a sidewalk in Cambridge proper, ACCRA wouldrequire them to collect statistics on these typesof nebulous incidents--situations where HUPD has,in practice, wide discretion about how to classifythe incidents...