Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right now, the Ed School has several other programs that work with the Cambridge and Boston schools. A principal's center provides training for school administrators in the area, and Harvard also sponsors a reading lab for children of middle school age...
...simply--as other critics have suggested--a lack of talent and maturity on the squad? What can a bunch of college-age kids hope to accomplish against two-dozen hardened Soviets, many of whom are in their middle 20's and have skated for years on Soviet select teams...
Still, the shelters are not constructed to everyone's taste. Some workers are concerned that their savings cannot be easily retrieved, as is the case with IRAs. According to the tax rules governing 401(k)s, employees can withdraw their money before age 59 1/2 only if they suffer from a disability or a hardship, which the IRS has traditionally interpreted to mean something as serious as costly medical expenses. They must also pay a 10% penalty to retrieve their funds. One way to withdraw the money without paying the penalty is to borrow against one's 401(k) savings...
...when she met a pitchman for the Arizona Career College. With promises of a dazzling career, he persuaded her to drop out and enroll in a $5,000 "computer communications" course. She would qualify for a federally guaranteed student loan, she was told, if she would fake her age upward a year to 17. Though her school guidance counselor warned that she lacked the skills for such a program, Hernandez enrolled, only to quit when the going got too rough. Now receiving bills for $4,400 in outstanding loans, she baby-sits for a precarious living. "I just wasted...
...momentary thaw (one of Calgary's snow-eating chinooks) melted the town three days before fledgling Figure Skater Robyn Perry got up on her toes to reach the Olympic cauldron. Two years short of the competitors' minimum age, the local whiz kid represented youth's considerable promise; also, bravery. A week earlier, before the thermometer shot from 11 degrees below to 45 degrees and back to 21 degrees again, the Olympic torch blew up spectacularly. Engineers called it a "minor malfunction," but Perry may have wished for a longer handle...