Word: attendant
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...basketball court he was a formidable talent, nicknamed "Sco" for his scoring ability. His skill caught the attention of schools nationwide. "My phone rang 24 hours a day," recalls Carl. "College coaches were chasing behind me." In November 1987 Carl signed a letter of intent to attend the University of Nebraska...
...assault their partners again, its police department was the first in the U.S. to institute mandatory arrest for suspected batterers. Similarly, the city's prosecutors vigorously pursue those who violate protection orders. But perhaps the most important aspect of the Duluth program is that it requires batterers to attend at least six months of counseling classes. A man who misses two meetings risks having to serve up to ten days in jail. Follow-up studies done two years after the program started show that about 80% of the women whose partners went through the program were no longer being battered...
...chases are just the stuff of movies. But not to TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief Kenneth Banta. They're sometimes a real part of the job of covering a bloc of nations not always known for their hospitality to the press. During one trip to Prague to attend a dissident conference, Banta and his translator were met at their hotel by a pair of dark sedans filled with secret police eager to dissuade the reporters from venturing out. Undaunted, Banta's translator gunned his small Czech-made Skoda down the city's cobblestone streets, one of the cars roaring...
Some of the readers said they were concerned that more people did not attend. But Yoshino said, "I don't think that that has anything to do with what we're doing here...
...whose work involves applying mathematical principles to the motions of astronomical bodies, said he may use the Sloan funds to relieve teaching pressures, attend academic conferences and purchase equipment...