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...year-old boy in suburban Chicago, run over en route to school. Californians were chilled by the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl in Cupertino, who was attacked as she crossed a vacant lot on her way to school. Most schools found it impossible to adjust their hours because of union contract rules, the after-school commitments of school bus drivers and inconvenience to working parents. Thus, many school authorities recommended that children wear light-colored clothing or reflector patches. The Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. began giving away patches and distributed 500,000 in two days...
...tough coming off a layoff like that," coach Tim Taylor said after the game. "We only had two practices before this game. I also switched the first two lines around and the players had to adjust to that," Taylor said...
Rising Prices. The full impact of the oil cutback is still unclear, though there is general agreement that the economy eventually will adjust and continue to grow, despite its reduced energy diet, largely because businessmen and consumers will be forced to change their wasteful ways. Moreover, it now seems that the petroleum shortfall will be less than the thoroughly disruptive 3.4 million bbl. per day originally anticipated. Still, the jittery psychological climate created by the threat has enabled oil-exporting countries to raise their prices to towering new levels, and that will further fuel raging inflation in all industrialized nations...
...here it is very tranquil." Senora Dolores moved from Mexico City when she married her husband six years ago. She found it difficult to adjust to country ways at first--she had never made a tortilla or scrubbed clothes on rocks before--but "You grow accustomed." Her husband won't let her go to the city to see her family because "if I went, I would stay," and he doesn't like her to make friends among the other village women...
Harrington said his other objections to the plan are the extent of the merit-based awards, the $1000 gap between a student's scholarship and his expenses, the elimination of a fall term stipend, and the failure to adjust awards to rising costs due to inflation...