Word: booklets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Germany to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The Missouri entrepreneurs who imported the debris swear that it comes from demolished portions of the Berlin Wall. Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, they will split it into 2-oz. chunks to be sold, along with an "informative booklet and a declaration of authenticity," for $10 to $15 in gift shops and department stores...
...many areas where museums can no longer buy," says James Wood, director of the Art Institute of Chicago. "It's bad for the museums, but it goes beyond that. It's bad for the country." The symbol of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's plight is an annual booklet that used to be titled Notable Acquisitions. In 1986 it was renamed Recent Acquisitions because, as the museum's director Philippe de Montebello wrote, the rise in art prices "has limited the quantity and quality of acquisitions to the point where we can no longer expect to match the standards...
...self-adhesive postage stamps billed as "the most thoroughly researched and tested issue in U.S. stamp history." The new 25 cents first-class stamps will be test-marketed for 30 days in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, Minneapolis and ten other cities. One possible sticking point for consumers: a booklet of 18 first-class stamps is priced at $5, which includes a 50 cents markup to cover the cost of the new "special features...
That led to eleventh-hour alterations to accommodate Fundamentalists, who believe God directly created Adam and Eve. The board deleted references to a 1987 Supreme Court ruling and a National Academy of Sciences booklet that oppose giving Darwin and creationism equal weight in science classes. The Californians also omitted this: "There is no scientific dispute that evolution has occurred and continues to occur; this is why evolution is regarded as a scientific fact." But another section asserts, "It is a scientific fact that organisms have evolved through time." The board advises teachers not to suppress part of the curriculum...
...schools ever were islands of safety within otherwise violent neighborhoods, they certainly are no longer," warns a new booklet of advice from the federally funded National School Safety Center at California's Pepperdine University. The center says 3 million crimes a year occur on school grounds, with 183,590 injuries reported in 1987. Another study estimates that on a typical day at least 100,000 U.S. pupils carry guns, and the firepower is getting heavier...