Word: akron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dialogue" sponsored by Educators for Social Responsibility, thousands of questionnaires similar to the Mack-Beardslee questioning were distributed to high school students. In the same year, a Newton North High School senior received responses from 950 of his schoolmates on a similar questionnaire. More than 700 students in Akron, Ohio filled in questionnaires on the subject distributed by a city physician. And a California pediatrician administered a survey to nearly 1000 junior and high school students, "embedding" the nuclear war question among 20 items in an effort to hide his agenda...
...road only two or three days a week, he tries to avoid addressing complicated issues or difficult audiences. His strategists prefer a succession of snapshots: Reagan amid a lift-off of 5,000 balloons in Waterbury last week, Reagan surrounded by smiling workers during a planned visit to an Akron steel plant this week. The idea is simple: just keep the jaunty President walking on the sunny side of the street...
...noteworthy smaller papers are as feisty and controversial as the Georgia Gazette, but they all seemingly share that philosophy and apply it in all sorts of settings. The Akron Beacon Journal (circ. 163,300), Kansas' Wichita Eagle-Beacon (circ. 120,900), Oregon's Eugene Register-Guard (circ. 65,200) and North Carolina's Fayetteville Times and Observer (combined circ. 66,900) serve sizable communities away from big cities. They are matched in quality by suburban competitors of papers on TIME's ten best list: the Quincy Patriot Ledger (circ. 89,300) south of Boston, the Bergen...
...tame down. Suddenly, you can't imagine sitting down and smoking a pack of fags or drinking whisky. Being a mother's a real awakening." Hynde is still far from being the sort of model of civic rectitude that the folks back in her home town of Akron might approve. After a low-key, Midwestern small-town childhood, she took off for England, wild and a little desperate, at the age of 22, and plunged into the sort of bohemian life that, with suitable adjustments for advanced age and encroaching gentility, still obtains today. She and Davies live...
Scott C. Vigder Akron...