Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...miles away, on a U.S. domestic airliner, another flight attendant strides down the aisle and deposits a tiny tray of what is optimistically described as chicken Kiev. A ragged strip of batter and bone soaked in an indeterminate broth, nested in some wilted greens, alongside a piece of cinder block with red gumdrop icing. A sigh of resignation. "On the short hauls, I never eat anything," says John Downard, vice president of Hoechst Celanese in Charlotte, N.C. "I look at flying as an opportunity for fasting...
...Saints snagged the post-season tournament last year and the ECAC championship banner still hangs in their arena. This weekend that banner is on the auction block--and Harvard is heading into Boston Garden as the league's highest bidder...
...Boston School Committee and the Boston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) alleged last week the plan is tantamount to resegregation and is not in the best interests of minority schoolchildren. They may file a lawsuit against the school system to block the proposal's implementation...
Even when Hector Tabarez, 25, keeps the windows rolled up as he drives his 1985 chocolate brown Nissan pickup, his reputation precedes him. Anyone within a several-block radius can hear Tabarez coming, for he drives what is known as a "boom car." The auto mechanic from Gardena, Calif., spent $8,000 to install the vehicle's current stereo system, which comprises a deluxe Alpine 7902 compact-disc player, two heavy-duty Orion amplifiers and 32 speakers. His rig can deliver a bone-jarring 144 decibels of sound. "I just got carried away," he admits...