Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last night he saw his team jump to a 3-0 first period lead but fall behind, 4-3, in the middle of the second period. Harvard roared back. And when it was over, Cleary roared...
...their kids' rooms to see if they're hiding drugs. Big businesses could use them to sniff out the desks of employees they suspect are using drugs. That would avoid all those constitutional questions about urine testing and lie detector tests." Jeff's eyes open wide and unblinking behind his thick-lensed glasses. "Whaddaya think...
...detached art-supplier with mass-cultural fixations on things everyone knew: canned soup, Liz, dollar bills, death. Fame was the real qualifier. One doubts, somehow, that Warhol plowed through Faust before cranking out his flashy and unfelt variations on Tischbein's portrait of Goethe. No ideological motives lurk behind the benign collective visage of his innumerable Mao Zedongs; but a billion Chinese could no more be wrong about such a celebrity than 200 million Americans could be about Jackie or Marilyn...
...City public schools. His $30,000 salary is $5,000 less than he made in the private sector -- but $9,000 more than he would have made teaching math five years ago. Carlyle, 39, has no regrets. "Getting these kids through high school is much more satisfying than working behind a desk," he says. That kind of gratification translates into high job-retention rates. In the past school year, only 4% of midcareer teachers in New Jersey left the classroom after one year on the job, compared with almost 16% of teachers with traditional training...
...dispatches on presidential decisions, should any printing presses or broadcast facilities be left standing. We were ordered to stay within 20 minutes of the White House and near a phone. I brooded for a couple of days over the prospect of leaving a wife and three small children behind, and decided I could not do it. I asked to be taken off the pool. I felt the moment was so unreal that none of us knew for sure what we were doing...