Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accessible to the disadvantaged. He favors increases in student aid and is a staunch advocate of bilingual education. In almost every speech he decries the fact that 25% of the nation's teenagers drop out before completing high school and that 40% of Hispanics still have no diploma by age 25. "Por favor, nios, no dejen la escuela" (Please, children, do not leave school), he pleaded at his first press conference in September...
...that in the course of just 15 years many Americans have come to regard as no less inalienable than freedom of religion or expression. It is a right exercised by 1.6 million U.S. women each year -- some rich, some poor; some barely out of childhood, some close to middle age; nearly a fifth married, the rest single. But in the eyes of many Americans, the right to abortion, established by the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, is not a right at all, but a wrong...
...this sounds sensible, but what a tightrope walk it turns out to be! For an artistic director has strong stylistic preferences. Take the case of senior ballerina Martine van Hamel and what she calls "this age business." " 'I have tried to explain to her that she should perhaps no longer dance Kitri in Don Q((uixote)),' Baryshnikov said one day with genuine frustration. 'It happens . . . That's life.' " But to a ballerina, it's death. The still elegant star points rudely to Baryshnikov's young picks, all shorter and skinnier than she. Her verdict: "Chickens." Sighs the boss...
Smelling advantage, Turner persistently -- and with no hard evidence to back up his claims -- warned that ratification of free trade would lead to U.S. and Canadian pressure to reduce Canada's comprehensive system of medicare and generous old-age pensions. Other opponents of free trade, many of them organized in the activist coalition known as the Pro-Canada Network, published a pamphlet that featured cartoons of, among other things, Mulroney pledging allegiance in front of the Stars and Stripes. A pro-Mulroney heckler who showed up at a Turner rally in Montreal was beaten bloody, an incident that shocked...
While colleagues are so far not calling forHarvard to reinstate Frazier, who was nearingretirement age, they say the incident marks a sadending to a distinguished career...