Word: attendant
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...relationships. To condemn social gatherings where most individuals are of one group is to demand that all dancing pairs be interracial. The Wellesley event is not an example of discriminatory practice; it is open to all interested persons of the various colleges, and many non-Asians chose not to attend, just as many Asians and some non-Asians chose to attend...
...homeschooling certainly hasn't handicapped the Colfaxes' intellectual achievement. Grant is currently in New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship and plans to attend Harvard Medical School in the fall. A magna cum laude graduate in biology, Grant won a Hoopes Prize for his thesis...
Last Friday, the House turned down a proposal to grant an additional $15.7 million to the state's higher education budget. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Stanley C. Rosenberg (D-Amherst), would have allowed the 2000 academically eligible students turned away from state colleges and universities this year to attend them next year...
...years, says Koskotas, payoffs went to the party, none to Papandreou himself. Then a pivotal event occurred. In October 1987, Koskotas traveled to Washington to attend a White House luncheon at which Vice President George Bush was the host. Secret Service agents, checking invitations, were surprised to discover that the guest from Greece was under a six-year-old federal indictment. They arrested Koskotas at his Washington hotel. The banker posted bail of $1 million. A few days later, to get home, Koskotas lied to Greek embassy officials and obtained a travel document...
Currently most school districts tell parents which public school their children must attend. It could be a school down the block or one across town in need of better racial balance. The problem, critics argue, is that parents have no say, and even bad schools are rewarded with full student bodies and tax revenues. That is beginning to change. In locations as diverse as New York's East Harlem, San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass., parents are now free to select what they judge to be the best public school in their district. Minnesota goes even further. It is phasing...