Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ALVINDEE BELL, 19; LOS ANGELES, CALIF.; student Leaving work one day in March, Bell heard screams. The strapping young man rescued a teenage girl from an attacker who was later charged with sexual battery. Bell, a developmentally disabled youth who participates in the Special Olympics, received a city council commendation for his bravery. Says city attorney Lynn Magnan-Donovan: "This has reaffirmed my faith in human beings. He responded to a situation where others wouldn...
...children? Consider "Read-A-Logo," put out by Teacher Support Software and used by 3,800 kindergartners in Texas' Cypress-Fairbanks School District. "Taco Bell has [blank] and burritos," one test sentence runs. Insists Suzanne Thompson, early-childhood coordinator for the district: "They have been going to Taco Bell since long before kindergarten. This connects to their prior learning." But Alex Molnar, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of a book on corporations in the classroom, argues that "the long-term impact is to undermine and trivialize the curriculum...
...episode of Must See TV, so George doesn't seek solace from close friends and a laugh track. Instead he goes to Paris and befriends a beautiful French zookeeper named Julie whose wardrobe, despite the potential grubbiness of her work, is limited to lace sweaters and snug-fitting leather bell bottoms. "You're so sexy," George tells her, "even the wild animals love you." That line wouldn't get most men very far. But here, in the glamorous, goofily lewd world of Strangers, it proves winning. Before we know it, George is relieving Julie of her bra. On camera...
Speaking of the reaction of former club president Kristen M. Clarke '97 to the publishing of The Bell Curve, Okasi says, "She was faced with a political situation, so she responded...
...YORK CITY: NEC and Packard Bell Electronics announced they will merge their personal computer operations, making the combined entity the world's fourth largest PC maker. A combined Packard Bell and NEC would have led the U.S. in PC sales in 1995. The $300 million deal does not include NEC's personal computer operations in Japan, where it is the No. 1 PC-maker. Packard Bell, whose growth exploded in the early 1990s as consumers jumped into the lower-priced PC market, has seen its market share slip during the first quarter this year. The merged company will be called...